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Omega | Official Number
63881
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The Omega was a barque of 480 tons, built at Workington by
Jonathon
Fell in September 1869. She was owned first in London, then at Shanghai
from the 1880's. She went missing on a voyage to Shanghai
from Saigon in 1905.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Omega
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1869
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480
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149.8
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27.9
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17.5
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3
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14 years A1, Special Survey
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Sources :
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"Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven
Museum (1985).
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1869-70 (supplement): Omega (protem), wooden barque, 483 gross tons, owned by Harrington & Workington Shipbuilding Company, registered at Workington.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1873-4: Omega, official number
63881, 483 gross tons, owned by Nixon, Howard & Co., registered at London, master Capt.C.Bruce, voyage London - Kurrache.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1883-4: Omega, owned by China Shipowners' Association, registered at Shanghai.
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1898-9: Omega, official
number 63881, signal letters JKPT, wooden barque, 492 gross tons, owned
by Morris & Co., registered at Shanghai, master Capt.A.G.Stevenson.