WILLIAM COULMAN

Built 1866
Tonnages 406grt, 277 nrt : post 1872 491 grt, 366 nrt : LR 1905 737 grt, 445 nrt
Dimensions 180.4 x 24.1 ft x 12.8 ft : post 1872 211.5 x 24.2 x 12.7 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) McNab & Co., Greenock (11)
Engine builder 1871 new engine by C. D. Holmes & Co., Hull
Engine 75 hp :1871 C2cyl (22, 44 x 27in),84 hp
O.N. 54505
Owners

1866 Goole Steam Shipping Company, Goole

  25/01/1890 Goole register closed on sale to U.S.A owners
  by 1905 New York & Baltimore Transportation Line, Baltimore as BLUEFIELDS
Fate 04/01/1908 sank off Cape Hatteras with the loss of 18 lives

Depicted in this painting by James Bullass of Reedness (b. 1862)

and dated in 1885, by kind permission of Stan Threadgould

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