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