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Steamship Claribel


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Built 1872 by T Boyden & Sons Liverpool, England
Iron hulled, two-masted, steam-powered screw
compound engine #29, 56" cylinder x 30" stroke
1095 gross tons, 250 x 28 x 21.1
Previously named Avila (British)

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chartered from Atlas Steamship on 08/20/1881 Co to replace lost Cortes
on the New York, St John via Halifax route for the Cromwell S/S Line.
During the late 1800s thru 1930s, it was not uncommon for a steamship line
to charter another lines ships to fill-in for ships in repair, disabled or lost.


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