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Name: WILLIAM CORY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/05/1857
Completed: 07/1857
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 28
Dimensions: 1168grt, 919nrt, 244.6 x 35.2 x 17.8ft
Engines: 2cyl (43 & 43 x 33ins), 180nhp; (1877: C2cyl (30 & 55 x 33ins), 190nhp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1877: Victoria Dock Engine Works, London)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 18730
History:
27/07/1857 Hugh Taylor et al, London
1870 John Fenwick & Son, London
1882 RW Surtees, London
1888 R Jobson & Co, London
1896 Wm Cory & Son Ltd, London
05/1900 Broken up
Comments: 1877: Engine compounded
05/1900: Broken up at Dordrecht by CH Sundermann


North & South Shields Gazette, Thursday, 28/05/1857