s.s. 'Mary Tatham' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Mary Tatham - 2nd August 1880.

She was surveyed upon the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building & Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. A. E. Keydell. The vessel was an iron screw steamer of 1,627 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of London having been built by P. (Phillip?) Hardcastle of Sunderland launched in July 1878 and completed during April 1879.

The survey was necessary 'on account of grounding in the river Taff on the 30th July 1880, before putting the vessel on the cradle' (of the slipway).

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MARY TATHAM Tatham & Co.; 1879; P. Hardcastle & Co.; 1,627 tons; 251 x 33- 4x23-2; 160 h.p.; compound inverted engines. The British cargo ship Mary Tatham was wrecked at Cape Yerimo, Japan, on April 10th, 1882, while on a voyage from Nagasaki to Portland, Or., carrying a general cargo. [799]