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Name: CHAMPION
Launched: 1846
Completed: 10/1846
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 75grt, 23nrt, 77.8 x 15.2 x 9.0ft; (1865: 73grt, 31nrt, 80.6 x 16.1 x ?ft)
Engines: 40hp; (1865: 45hp)
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 9983
History:
12/10/1846 A Shields et al; registered at Stockton
12/10/1854 James Deane; registered at London
1858 TJ Waller et al, London
1859 WH Walter, London
1860 John Newby et al, London
1863 William Robinson, Birkenhead; registered at Liverpool
1864 John Redhead, Birkenhead
1867 William Allsup; registered at Preston
No later history known
Comments: Probably engined by JP Almond at North Shields
Still listed in MNL 1885