s.s. 'Melrose Abbey' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Melrose Abbey - 16th April 1880.

She was surveyed upon the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building & Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. Henry T. Tyrrell. The vessel was an iron screw steamer of 1,625 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Newport, Mon. having been built by Thomas Turnbull & Son of Whitby and completed during April 1877. The survey was necessary 'on account of grounding.'

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MELROSE ABBEY Frederick Jones; 1877; T. Turnbull & Son; 1,211 tons; 236-2 X 32 • 1 X17 • 1; 127 n.h.p.; compound engines. The British cargo ship Melrose Abbey was wrecked on Les Fourches Rock, off the west coast of France, on July 31st, 1909. [799]