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Name: BLESSING
Launched: 1838
Completed: 10/1838
Builder: James Dowey, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 47grt, 12nrt, 59.9 x 13.8 x 7.7ft
Engines: 1cyl (25 x ?ins), 20nhp
Engines by: Thomas D Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 19740
History:
13/10/1838 Francis Robson, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
1848 William Gare, North Shields
20/12/1851 J Cowperthwaite & James Oswald, Shields
14/03/1854 Thomas Errington, Alexander Taylor & Henry Forrest, Newcastle
1857 Heads & Forrest, Newcastle
1862 William Heads, Newcastle
1864 Lost
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