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Name: BLESSING
Launched: 1838
Completed: 06/09/1838
Builder: James Dowey, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 47grt, 12nrt, 59.9 x 13.7 x 7.7ft
Engines: 1cyl (25 x 40ins), 20nhp
Engines by: Thomas D Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 19740
History:
13/10/1838 F Robson, W Garr, P Burn & M Richardson, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
10/11/1838 F Robson, W Garr, P Burn & J Oswald, North Shields
04/07/1843 J Cowperthwaite, W Garr & J Oswald, North Shields
20/12/1851 Registered at Shields
12/05/1853 J Cowperthwaite & James Oswald, North Shields
14/03/1854 Thomas Errington, Alexander Taylor & Henry Forrest, Howdon
14/03/1854 Registered at Newcastle
15/09/1857 W Heads, North Shields & H Forrest, Howdon
17/10/1862 William Heads, North Shields
1864 Lost
Comments: 13/08/1869: Register closed as "Reputed to have been lost in 1864”