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Name: BLUE JACKET
Launched: 1860
Completed: 07/1860
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 76grt, 23nrt, 85.7 x 17.4 x 9.0ft (1873: 15nrt); (1883: 8nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (30.75 x 48ins), 40nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 28571
History:
05/07/1860 James Monat, North Shields; registered at Shields
1866 William Best, Thomas Ellis & Thomas Pickering, South Shields; registered at North Shields
1873 William Best, Thomas Petis & George Wraith, South Shields
1873 William Hockley, Frederick White, James Gill, Poplar, London; registered at London
1882 James Dodds, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1883 Andrew E Patterson, Burntisland; registered at Leith
1887 Broken up
Comments: 1887: Condemned and broken up
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details