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Name: CHESAPEAKE
Launched:
Completed: 1856
Builder: Robert & Richard Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 54grt, 12nrt, 76.2 x 15.3 x 8.3ft; (1869: 5nrt); (1881: 0nrt); (1892: 3nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 26nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landell, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 14582
History:
1856 Benjamin Pearson, North Shields; registered at Shields
07/1861 Alexander McKinnon, Greenock; registered at Glasgow
1863 Alexander & William McKinnon, Greenock
1890 Alexander John McKinnon, Greenock
1894 Broken up
Comments: 28/01/1871: Sank in Loch Long.
Subsequently raised and repaired
1894: Sold to be broken up
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair

Daily News (London), Wednesday, February 1, 1871