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Name: ETNA
Launched: 20/06/1868
Completed: 08/1868
Builder: Thomas Hepple, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 121grt, 22nrt, 105.0 x 19.3 x 10.2ft
Engines: L1cyl (35.5 x 58ins), 52nhp
Engines by: Thomas Hepple
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 60495
History:
12/08/1868 Matthew Cockburn, North Shields
1875 North Shields register closed
by 1878 Madalena Caruana, Sulina, Roumania
No further history known
Comments: 17/08/1868: Left the Tyne for Constantinople
1875: Register closed, "sold to Italian at Constantinople"
Roumanian register for 1878 has wooden, paddle, 1 mast, 1 engine,
1 boiler, 60hp, 86t, 32.52 x 5.45m
Thanks to Andreas von Mach (via David Asprey) for the above information


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/08/1868