Category:Taurus (ship, 1866)
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Ship
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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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