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Name: KIMBERLEY
Launched: 26/07/1881
Completed: 10/1881
Builder: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Yard Number: 356
Dimensions: 97grt, 24nrt, 90.6 x 18.3 x 8.1ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (24.5 x 46ins), 60nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 85062
History:
11/10/1881 Thomas W Irvine, London
1882 East London Landing & Shipping Co, East London, Cape of Good Hope
09/04/1886 Registered at East London, Cape of Good Hope
12/04/1892 United Boating Co, East London
22/09/1892 Frank WF Johnson, Beira
12/05/1909 Registry closed
Comments: 09/1892: For service on the Pungwe River from Beira to Fontesvilla,
where a railway to Mashonaland was being built
05/1909: Broken down and abandoned in Chinese Creek, Beira
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo is copyright of the East London Museum