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Name: SOCRATES
Launched: 20/03/1871
Completed: 04/1871
Builder: Thomas Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 273
Dimensions: 115grt, 37nrt, 101.3 x 18.9 x 10.1ft
Engines: SL1cyl (37 x 54ins), 46nhp
Engines By: Thomas Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 65386
History:
1871 Henry I Brightman; registered at North Shields
1872 Sotirios Hazzopulos, Manchester
1874 Imperial Ottoman Government
1905? Idarei Massousieh, Constantinople; renamed DJAILAN
1909 Broken up
Comments: 14/05/1871: Reported as arrived at Constantinople.
1905: Some sources use the spelling CEYLAN rather than DJAILAN
1909: Broken up at Malta