ROMEO

Built 08/1873
Tonnages 496 grt, 269 nrt
Dimensions 170.2 x 26.2 x 11.6 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) McKellar, McMillan & Co. Dumbarton (3)
Engine builder Kincaid, Donald & Co., Greenock
Engine C2cyl (22, 40 x 28in), 70 nhp
O.N. 67808
Owners Reg. at Goole 1873 to John Seed, John Taylor & others, on behalf of Goole Steam Shipping Co.
 

1891 Romeo S.S. Co. Ltd. (Wm. Cawthorn), Goole/London

  1894 A. R. Aranjo, Gijon; renamed JOVELLANOS
  1895 S. N. Aleson, Gijon
  1900 A. R. Aranjo, Gijon
  1903 Union Hullera y Metalurgica de Asturias, Gijon
  1907 Soc. Metallurgica Duro-Felguera, Gijon
  1920 Bru Hermanos, Barcelona
   
Fate 13/04/1921 sank 64 miles off San Pietro Island on passage Barcelona for Piraeus and Constantinople

 

Depicted in this painting by James Bullass of Reedness (b. 1862)

and dated in 1885, by kind permission of Stan Threadgould

As JOVELLANOS, collection of David Asprey

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