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Name: BANGKOK
Launched: 1877
Completed: 04/1877
Builder: John Softley & Sons, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 149grt, 32nrt, 115.3 x 20.0 x 10.0ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (30.5 x 54ins), 80nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76636
History:
07/04/1877 Robert Brotherick Avery; registered at North Shields
1877 HWF Niemann, South Shields; registered at London
1878 HWF Niemann, Bangkok
1881 The Borneo Company Ltd, Singapore; registered at Singapore (ON 76637)
1882 The New Harbour Dock Co Ltd & The Tanjong Pagar Dock Co, Singapore
1900 The Tanjong Pagar Dock Co, Singapore
1909 The Tanjong Pagar Dock Board, Singapore
1913 Broken up
Comments: 1913: Condemned "and will be broken up"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


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