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The wreck in 1894
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History
United Kingdom
Name SS Colonist
Owner Angier Line, London
Port of registry London
Builder Osbourne, Graham & Co. Ltd, North Hylton
Yard number 82
Launched 12 October 1889
Completed 1889
Identification Official number: 96673
Fate Wrecked, 9 September 1894
General characteristics
Type Iron screw steamer
Tonnage 819 GRT
Length 88.4 m (290 ft 0 in)
Beam 11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Draught 6.1 m (20 ft 0 in)
Installed power Triple expansion engine
Crew 29

SS Colonist was a British iron-hulled coastal cargo ship driven by a 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine. She was built in 1889 by Osbourne, Graham & Co. Ltd, North Hylton, England. She had a complement of 29 crewmembers.

Shipwrecked

On 9 September 1894, traveling from Newcastle, New South Wales on her way to Adelaide while carrying a cargo of coal the Colonist was wrecked on Newcastle's Oyster Bank at position 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E / -32.914; 151.797.

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