Category:Taurus (ship, 1866)

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Ship

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  • Built by Preston Iron Shipbuilding Company, Preston
  • Length: 75.3 m
  • Beam: 9.8 m
  • tonnage: 838 gross.
  • Engine: direct-acting steam engine of 250 initial horsepower driving a pair of feathering paddle wheels
  • Service speed of 14 knots.
  • Fitted to carry 650 cattle and 500 sheep, the ‘Taurus’ moved approximately 80,000 animals annually

History

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  • 1866 Named: TAURUS for the General Steam Navigation Company, for the cattle trade to the continent, running from London to Hamburg, Antwerp and Geestemunde.
  • 1892 sold to City of London to bring cattle from Gravesend to Deptford.
  • 1913 Sold for scrapping in Holland

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