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PS Harwich (1864)

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57: 184:. She was schooner rigged, with efficient masts, so as to have the ability to sail under emergencies. She made her maiden voyage on 10 August 1864 carrying 300 head of oxen and 600 sheep. 660: 670: 655: 665: 284: 513: 165:
The ship was built by Simpson and Company in London in 1864 as the first of an order of two vessels, the second being
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Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968).
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Index

Great Eastern Railway
United Kingdom
gross register tons
Great Eastern Railway
PS Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Harwich
twin-screw ship
Earle's Shipbuilding
Hull
"The New Steamer Harwich"
British Newspaper Archive
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Great Eastern Railway
Adelaide
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Archangel
Avalon
Berlin
Brandon
Bruges
Brussels
Cambridge
Chelmsford
Claud Hamilton
Colchester

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