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Name: BLOSSOM
Launched: 1838
Completed: 08/06/1838
Builder: Stephenson & Maxwell, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 33grt, 8nrt, 57.0 x 11.8 x 6.9ft; (1860: 31grt, 5nrt, 59.6 x 13.0 x 6.7ft)
Engines: 1cyl (21.25 x 40ins), 12nhp; (1857: 14nhp); (1860: 15nhp)
Engines by: Thomas Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 16153
History:
18/09/1838 T Dawson & W Harrison, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
18/09/1838 T Dawson & W Harrison, North Shields and W Hall, Newcastle
1855 W & R Hall and W Harrison, Newcastle
17/10/1859 H Rowell & G Dodds, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
17/10/1859 H Rowell, JL Atkinson and J & W Liddle, Sunderland
10/08/1860 H Rowell, JL Atkinson, J Turpin and J & W Liddle, Sunderland
22/05/1861 H Rowell & J Turpin, Sunderland
12/10/1865 J Elliott, R Tim, W Jameson, & WJ Swinhoe, Sunderland
27/11/1866 J Elliott, R Tim, W Jameson, & J Prichard, Sunderland
20/07/1868 Robert Timm, Sunderland
by 1871 Broken up
Comments: 21/08/1871: Register closed as "Broken up"