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Name: BRILLIANT
Launched: 1858
Completed: 1858
Builder: JP Almond, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 110grt, 9nrt, 101.4 x 18.7 x 9.9ft
Engines: L2cyl (30 & 30 x 36ins), 65nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 78413
History:
1858 Unknown owner
10/07/1878 G Wright; registered at West Hartlepool
1878 Martha Nicholson, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
28/12/1880 Lost
Comments: 10/07/1878: First registration
28/12/1880: Sank after a collision with PALM off Scarborough
BRILLIANT was being used as a steam trawler at the time


Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 29/12/1880