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Royal Edward; Official Number: 49864{1]; Signal Letters: WFRG{1]; Port of Registry: Liverpool[1] Built by Weswood Baillie & Company at London Iron Works, Millwall, Middlesex[2], for David Fernie of Liverpool[3]. Length: 223.5 feet[3] Breadth: 36.8 feet[3] Depth: 24 feet[3] Registered Tonnage: 1508[3] Cargo Capacity: about 2000 tons[2]* Construction: Iron hull with timber decks and steel bowsprit, masts and spars[2][3]. Abandoned in the Southern Ocean 3 July 1866[4]
 * The illustrated London News states that the ship is of "3500 tons burden"; this is interpreted to be the displacement tonnage when fully laden and is approximately 2000 tons more than the registered tonnage. On one voyage from Australia in 1869 she was reported to have loaded 1960 tons of coal for San Francisco[5].

References: [1]Mercantile Navy List 1883 page 508 [2]Illustrated London News 14 April 1864 page 473 [3]Certificate of Registration dated 21 May 1864 (transcription held at The National Archives, UK) [4]The Sydney Morning Herald 19 August 1886 page 16 [5]The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 2 October 1869