Name: | CHESAPEAKE |
Launched: | |
Completed: | 1853 |
Builder: | Robert & Richard Stobbs, North Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 57grt, 19nrt, 72.0 x 14.0 x 8.1ft; (1856: 64grt, 40nrt, 74.8 x 15.2 x 8.2ft) |
Engines: | L1cyl, 25nhp |
Engines By: | |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 10170 |
History: | |
12/1853 | David B Pearson, North Shields; registered at Shields |
06/1856 | Joseph Gee, Hull; registered at Hull |
1860 | Samuel J Fill & Thomas Pain, Great Yarmouth; registered at Yarmouth |
1861 | James Swallow, Hull; registered at Hull |
1861 | John Rogerson, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
1862 | The Tyne General Ferry Co, Newcastle |
1863 | George Wraith |
1863 | John Rogerson, Newcastle |
1864 | Heald Mathurin & Co |
1865 | Sold to unknown Italian owner at Constantinople |
1876 | British register finally closed |
No further history known | |
Comments: | See details of the intrigue surrounding her trip to the Danube with |
LOUISE CRAWSHAY in the section for the shipbuilder John Rogerson |