| Name: | JOHN BOWES |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 30/06/1852 |
| Completed: | 07/1852 |
| Builder: | Palmer Brothers & Co |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 2 |
| Dimensions: | 468grt, 375nrt, 151.9 x 25.7 x 14.1ft |
| Engines: | 2cyl, 70hp; (1864: 2cyl (34.5 & 34.5 x 26ins), 70nhp); |
| (1883: C2cyl (16 & 36 x 26ins), 66nhp) | |
| Engines by: | Robert Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; |
| (1864: Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle); | |
| (1883: M Paul & Co, Dumbarton) | |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 26276 |
| History: | |
| 07/1852 | Iron Screw Collier Co (CM Palmer & Co), Newcastle |
| 1873 | Benjamin George Barnett, London |
| 1889 | Frithj, Ohens, Norway; renamed SPEC |
| 1889 | Unknown Sweden; renamed TRANSIT |
| 1908 | T de Ybarary, Bilbao; renamed CAROLINA |
| 1920 | Cia Naviera Fierros SA, Gijon; renamed VALENTIN FIERRO |
| 1933 | Renamed VILLA SELGAS |
| 10/1933 | Sank |
| Comments: | 07/1852: She was the world's first steam powered collier |
| She cost £1000 to build, 10 times the cost of a sailing brig. But she carried as much | |
| coal on a round trip to London of 5 days as the brig would carry in 2 months. | |
| 1908: Cost £2000 | |
| 1864: Re-engined | |
| 1883: Re-engined | |
| 10/1933: Sank in a storm between Bilbao & San Sebastian with a cargo of iron ore. | |
| She sank in the same year that her builders closed |
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