YARE 1887

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YARE 1887

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:38 pm

Built as an iron cargo vessel under yard No. 11on the yard of S. McKnight & Co, at Ayr, U.K. for H.Reeve at Yarmouth, U.K.
20 September 1887 Launched under the name NORFOLK. Official Number 92965.
Tonnage 299 gross, 149 net, dim. 44.19 x 6.86 x 3.35m.
One compound 2 cyl. steam engine of 70 rhp. Speed 10 knots; W.Kemp at Glasgow manufactured the engine.

1900 Was she owned by H. Newhouse & Co., Yarmouth.
1901 Sold to the Royal Mail Line and renamed YARE, stationed at Dominica and used for the inter-island trade.
1915 Sold to Joseph Gale at Preston, England, renamed RIBBLETON
1917 Re-measured to 320 grt.

08 January 1919, on a voyage from Kilkeel for Cardiff loaded with a cargo of potatoes she went missing.
Lloyds List on the 26th January and The Times on 28th January 1919 both report the vessel as being missing, and that a body of a seaman “from the steamer RIBBELETON” had been washed up on the Isle of Man.
The Scotsman of 27th March 1919 reports.
“Vessel missing”
RIBBLETON of Preston, 320 grt., Captain T.Gael which sailed from Kilkeel, Co. Down for Cardiff on 08 January 1919 with a cargo of potatoes: and has not since been heard of”.

Dominica 1975 ½c sg467, scott434. 1996 55c sg 2195, scott1871.


Source: Royal Mail Line by Duncan Haws. Info received from John Stevenson and Ted Finch. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
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