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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AMERICA |
22806 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1855 |
02/02/1855 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer 3 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
Cartsdyke Mid |
36 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 868 grt / 590 nrt / 550 dwt |
216.2 ft |
28.3 ft |
18.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw, 180nhp 350ihp 10kn |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Thomas Wadham, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
09/06/1855 |
| Other names |
| 1855 DURANCE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
11/7/1855 Mildred, Goyeneche & Co, London
1856 Compagnie Marseillaise de Navigation à Vapeur (Compagnie Fraissinet), Marseille |
| Vessel history |
22/1/1856 as DURANCE on voyage from Clyde to Marseille
1856 on Marseille-Nice-Italy service
18xx 511grt 284nrt, 55.87 x 8.55m |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1896 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| Scrapped at Marseilles. |
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Durance at Cannes in 1892
Image courtesy of : French Ministry of Culture
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