M. PEARSE & COMPANY., STOCKTON-ON-TEES

Name GLADIATOR
Type Cargo
Yard Number 28
Launched 20/09/1860
Completed 10/1860
Off. Number 29018
Engine builder Fosick & Hackworth & Co., Stockton-on-Tees (from 1881 new engine by Dunsmuir & Jackson, Glasgow)
Engine type Two 2 cyl. (from 1881 Compound 2 cyl)
GRT 592
Length (feet) 192.8
Beam (feet) 27.8
First owner T. & J. Harrison and partners, Liverpool
   
History 1861 Peninsular & North Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, Liverpool
  1861 Melchior G. Klinginder, Liverpool as agent for Galway Line, fitted out as blockade runner in the Confederate cause in the American civil war, operating successfully until 1864
  1862 John Fraser & Co.
  1862 Melchior G. Klinginder, Liverpool
  1863 C. K. Prioleau
  1864 T. & J. Harrison & partners, Liverpool
  1878 M. C. de Pothonier, Liverpool
  1883 Layborn & Legge, Liverpool
  1887 David MacBrayne & Co., Glasgow
   
Fate 12/12/1893 wrecked at Zabara, Cadiz on passage Mauritius for Liverpool with sugar

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