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Name: CAPTAIN WASHINGTON
Launched: 1853
Completed: 02/1853
Builder: A Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 80grt, 27nrt, 79.7 x 16.0 x 9.1ft; (1857: 90grt, 56nrt, 82.0 x 17.0 x 9.0ft)
Engines: 40nhp
Engines by: William Scott, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2142
History:
12/02/1853 J Hutchinson; registered at Shields
1855 William Wright, South Shields
1857 W Shaw, Shields
03/01/1859 Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments: 05/07/1855: Sailed from the Tyne to Constantinople
07/07/1857: Sailed from Plymouth after resupplying with coal