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Name: UNIONE
Launched: 12/07/1866
Completed: 1866
Builder: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 9
Dimensions: 187grt, 30nrt, 125.0 x 22.0 x 11.0ft
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (35 x 54ins), 86nhp
Engines by: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1866 Mirale Bey & Is, Constantinople
by 1867 Russo & Co, Constantinople
by 1878 Madalena Caruana, Sulina, Roumania; registered at Braila
No further history known
Comments: Roumanian register for 1878 has wooden, paddle, 1 mast, 2 engines,
2 boilers, 86hp, 82t, 39, 20 x 6.30m
Thanks to Andreas von Mach and David Asprey for the above information