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Name: BULL DOG or BULLDOG
Launched:
Completed: 1867
Builder: Richard Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 67grt 17nrt, 78.1 x 16.9 x 8.9ft
Engines: SL1cyl (28 x 48ins), 28nhp
Engines by: Readhead & Softley, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 56483
History:
02/03/1867 Henry Jobes, North Shields & Joseph Hall; registered at North Shields
1871 Samuel Tate Freeman, North Shields
17/06/1879 Robert Redhead & Son; registered at Newcastle
18/05/1883 John Taylor, Frederick Wilton et al, Sunderland
1899 John E Dawson, Sunderland
1899 Joseph M Rennoldson, South Shields
1899 Thomas Robson, Byker
1902 Fergus Graham, Swalwell
1902 Joseph Matfin, Gateshead
1903 Fergus Graham
1903 Henry & Margaret Farrier, Byker
1907 John Ridley & Matthew Swinburne, Bill Quay
1908 Broken up
Comments: 1908: Broken up at Sunderland
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo is believed to show BULL DOG on the River Wear & is courtesy of Eddie Frost