Category:Gauntlet (ship, 1853)

Ship edit

• Type: Passenger / cargo ship
• Built by: Denny & Rankin, Dumbarton, Victoria Yard
• Yard No: 92
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1853.05.11
• Completed: 1853
• Length over all: 183.4 ft
• Beam: 28.7 ft
• GRT: 693, from 1862 713, from 1869 667
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History edit

• 1853 Named Gauntlet; Flag: United Kingdom
  • Official number: 307
  • Port: Liverpool
  • Owner: James Smith, Finlay Campbell & Co and George & Arthur Herring & Co, Liverpool
• Sold to Alexander Struthers, Toward Castle, Argyll
• 1867 Sold to James Smith Jr, Liverpool
• 1873 Sold to Taylor, Bethell & Co - mng John Taylor, London
  • Port: London
• 1879 Sold to John R Harper, Limehouse
• 1885 Renamed Argo; Flag: Germany
  • Port: Elsfleth
  • Owner: C. Paulsen & Co
• 1887 Wrecked