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david asprey
Looks like 2 x MARACAIBO
1) 256grt 174nrt, 142.5 x 20.6 x 11.0ft, 60nhp screw
built ?? (iron)
18xx ??
8/2/1879 Henry H Berelton*, Caracas as MARACAIBO (GBR flag, reg Port of Spain, Trinidad, ON 57414)
c1880 deleted from British registry

*Suspect that "Henry H Berelton" was Henry Lord Boulton.

That steamer has interesting history

MARACAIBO was ordered from ...W.Hamilton ,Port Glasgow
Unfortunately after launch the ship caapsized, and was not accapted by HAPAG

Data from Abert:

ss MARACAIBO - ¬
April/Juli 1873 W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow ( )
596/? 1688/? 900 lt. A. Kludas
wie Nr. 310 lt. LR
51,90 7,00 ? m -”-
wie Nr. 310
Verb. 559x1016/762 70 NHP ? 4,55 ? 40
J. & T. Young, Ayr nicht bekannt (Pas.I=20 Zw. Deck=60)
"Maracaibo", vom Stapel für die H. A. P. A. G. in Hamburg (DEU), wegen zu großen Tiefganges nicht abgenommen. September 1873 "Rajah " Bur¬mah SS Co., Glasgow (GBR).
1874 Khoo Boo An, Penang (NLD).
1878 Foo Tye Sin.
1879 "Rajah Kongsie At,jeh" Thio Tiauw Siat & Co., Ohleh¬leh/Sumatra.
1900 "Rajah" Thio Saiun Kong, Penang.
1904 "Ascension" J. Rodriguez, Manila (USA).
1909 J. P. Wilson.
1913 "Mely" E. Bayona, Manila.
1914 "Apari" El Varadero de Manila, Manila.
1914 "Isla De Leyte” Limpangco Sons & Co., Manila.
1921 in Lloyd’s Register gestrichen.

she was replaced by

ss MARACAIBO RDQL
9.10./8.12.1873 H. Murray & Co., Port Glasgow ( )
252/156 714/442 500
44,13 6,52 3,41 m
Verb. 443x762/559 240 nicht bekannt
Kemp & Hume, Pt. Glasg " 19 (Pas.I=20 Zw. Deck=60)
(BB 19.12.1873) "Maracaibo",
vom Stapel als "Gresford" Eigner nicht bekannt (GBR).
H. A. P. A. G., Hamburg (DEU).
Februar 1975 Eigner nicht bekannt, Caracas (VEN).
1879 H. L. Boulton, Trinidad (GBR).
1887 "Bermudez" Eigner nicht bekannt, ? (VEN).
Dezember 1888 nach Kollision auf dem Orinoco gesunken.

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From my notices:

Removed from British register 17.02.1880 as sold to foreigners. Purchased by Venezuelan Government for Bs. 277,750 Served 1880. The Government gave free to Vallenilla the war steamer "Republica", which he did with the name of "Bermudez" to trade the line race from the port of La Guaira to Ciudad Bolivar, in the cabotage trade. 1888 sunk by collision in R. Orinoco.


Some materials aler not clear,and suggesting after removin form Hamburg register she was renamed "Gresford"