| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 370 grt / 285 nrt / 450om, c500dwt |
156.1 ft |
22.8 ft |
12.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
2cyl 100nhp, 1-screw
1869 re-engined by Thompson, Boyd & Co, Spring Gardens Engine Works, Newcastle
C2cyl 19",34"x26" 80nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| J Ormston, Newcastle and William Pearson, Hull, |
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |
06/02/1849 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
by1867 Tyne Steam Shipping Co, Newcastle
1868 Tyne Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle
by9/1881 Thomas Gentles, South Shields - reg South Shields (1883)
by1889 T S Blues, South Shields
1889 D/S 'Chevy Chase' - mng H A Haraldsen, Tønsberg - reg Tønsberg
1892 mng Alf Monsen, Tønsberg |
| Vessel history |
built for Newcastle-Hamburg service
19/1/1849 on trials
1/2/1849 sailed Greenock for Newcastle
23/2/1849 arrived Newcastle from Hamburg leaking (part cargo jettisoned)
1853 also operated Hull-Continent for Brownlow, Pearson & Co
22/3/1854 off Shields, ran into Sunderland steamer CHAMPION, which sank
1855 on Newcastle-Rotterdam service for Ormston, Dobson & Co
5/4/1855 aground in Molenhaven, Brielle
by1867 --grt 254nrt
1869 re-engined and reboilered (and lengthened? 360grt 218nrt, 161.2 x 24.1 x 13.0ft)
27/9/1881 ran into off Whitby (Tyne for Rouen) by French steamer AMITIE
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| Remarks |
| Allocated in WDB re-organisation as yard number 17. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1896 |
Collision 04/01/1896 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 4/1/1896 inbound from Christiania, collided in Woolwich Reach, River Thames with steamer RATHLIN; bow heavily damaged. Condemned and later scrapped. |
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