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Tynron ( United Kingdom): 450-ton, three-masted brigatine launched by Messrs Harvey and Company of Hayle, Cornwall.
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Servia ( United Kingdom): 8,500 ton Cunard steamer, launched by J & G Thomson of Clydebank (later John Brown & Company). The second, largest ship to be built; the Great Eastern (launched in 1858) the largest.
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Trevilley ( United Kingdom): 1850 ton (carrying capacity) steamer, launched by John Readhead & Sons of South Shields for Edward Hain and Son of St Ives, Cornwall. The third ship in the Hain's fleet.
(13 April) (April) -
Leerdam (ex-Nederland) ( Netherlands): 2700 ton (carrying capacity) steamer, launched by Fijenoord for NSBM. Originally named Nederland. Sold by NSBM to Nederlandsch Amerikaansche Stoomvaartmaatschappij in May 1882 and renamed Leerdam.
(27 April) (April) -
City of Rome ( United Kingdom): 8,821 ton Inman Line steamer was launched at Barrow. A donkey boiler exploded on deck killing four men and injuring nine others.
(14 June) (June) -
HMS Polyphemus ( United Kingdom): the Royal Navy torpedo ship was launched at Chatham Dockyard.
(15 June) (June) -
HMS Canada ( Royal Navy): Comus-class screw corvette in Portsmouth dockyard.
(26 August) (June) -
Mount's Bay ( United Kingdom): 3,000 ton steamer, built by Messrs Schlesinger, Davis and Co for the Mount's Bay Steamship Company and launched at Wallsend.
(10 September) (September) -
HMS Cordelia (1881) ( United Kingdom): the Royal Navy Comus-class corvette was launched at Portsmouth.
(22 October) (October) -
HMS Heroine ( United Kingdom): the Royal Navy Comus-class corvette was launched at Devonport.
(3 December) (December) -
Athenian ( United Kingdom): the 4,000 ton steamer, launched at Messrs Atken and Mansell's shipyard, Whiteinch, Glasgow for the Union Company on the Cape of Good Hope Service.
(7 December) (December)
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