RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name PENELOPE
Type Iron cargo steamship
Yard Number 177
Launched 14/09/1871
Completed 10/1871
Off. Number 65260
Engine builder  
Engine type C. 2cyl.
GRT 1194
Length (feet) 230
Beam (feet) 30.1
First owner Hornstedt & Garthorne, Hull
   
History 1887 J. Cormack, Leith
  1895 J. Cormack & Co., Leith
   
Fate 24/08/1917 torpedoed by SMS GLEITBOOT when 3 cables from Swalfer Ort LH in the Gulf of Riga, on passage outward from Petrograd (while serving as commissioned transport in the Russian Baltic Fleet)

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