Category:Hopewell (ship, 1900)

Ship

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• Built by: J Fullerton & Co., Paisley Scotland
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• Date of completion: 1900
• Length over all: 44 m
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• Beam: 7.3 m
• Draught: 2.5 m
• GRT: 337
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• Main engine: Triple expansion engine producing 65 nominal horsepower.
• Speed: kn

History

• 1900 Named: Hopewell for RM Hyne, Maryborough Queensland. Chartered briefly for timber work by John Burke & Co
• 1920 Resumed as a timber carrier for RM Hyne and, upon his death, placed by the family under the title 'Hopewell Steam Shipping Co Ltd', Maryborough. Continued as a timber carrier
• 1930 Laid off during the depression.
• 1934 In service again on the timber trade but found cost-prohibitive and stripped down to a hulk.
• 1938 Register closed 'broken up' but remains put ashore at Comboyuro, Moreton Island.