Name: | BLACK EAGLE |
Launched: | 1852 |
Completed: | 10/1852 |
Builder: | John Bell, North Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 111grt, 42nrt, 87.5 x 17.1 x 9.7ft; (by 1871: 110grt, 40nrt) |
Engines: | 52nhp |
Engines by: | JP Almond, North Shields |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 43311 |
History: | |
19/10/1852 | Anthony Strong, Joseph Hall, Andrew Brown and |
Christopher & Thomas Barker, North Shields; registered at North Shields | |
27/09/1853 | John & William Buchanan, Robert Barclay and James Watson, Glasgow |
27/09/1853 | Registered at Glasgow |
04/05/1854 | Alexander Dove & John Oswald, Melbourne; registered at Melbourne |
09/1866 | John Oswald & Daniel Inglis, Melbourne |
by 1871 | HR Reid & JC Poole, Melbourne |
05/1872 | Melbourne Towage Co, Melbourne |
26/12/1884 | Sank |
Comments: | 11/1853: Hull strengthened, paddles unshipped and |
rigged as a schooner for passage to Melbourne | |
22/9/1854: Fleet sold at auction & Alexander Dove returned to England | |
26/12/1884: Sank alongside St Kilda Pier in Hobson's Bay, Victoria | |
Had been carrying passengers on an excursion to St Kilda | |
30/12/1884: Auctioned and sold for ten pounds to John Clark | |
Subsequently refloated, towed to Williamstown & dismantled | |
Remains sunk alongside Breakwater Pier at Williamstown |