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Name: ADUR
Launched: 1855
Completed: 11/1855
Builder: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 63grt, 12nrt, 79.4 x 16.3 x 8.9ft
Engines: 1cyl (31.5 x ?ins), 35hp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10073
History:
05/12/1855 Robert, John & David Mitchell, Southwick, Sussex; registered at Shoreham
1858 Mitchell & Co, Shoreham
10/1860 William J Lockerby, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1863 William Brown, North Shields
04/1864 William Atkien, Richard Coverdale and John S Burfield, South Shields
04/1864 Registered at South Shields
23/11/1866 Richard E Cowell, Gibraltar; registered at Gibraltar
09/1868 Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments: 01/12/1855: Arrived at Shoreham from Shields
28/11/1866: Put into Weymouth short of coals
On a voyage from Shields to Gibraltar
29-31/12/1866: Called in at Lisbon
04/01/1867: Arrived at Gibraltar
01/04/1867: Sailed from Gibraltar for Lisbon
01/10/1868: Certificate of overseas sale received at Registry
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details