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Name: COCKERELL
Launched: 27/10/1858
Completed: 01/1859
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow
Yard Number: 76
Dimensions: 28grt, 19nrt, 59.8 x 12.2 x 5.6ft
Engines: 2cyl, 12nhp; (1875: 1cyl (18 x 14ins), 24nhp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn & Co, Newcastle - No 1055; (1875: Samuel Hodge & Sons, Millwall)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 27194
History:
26/01/1859 Richard Cory, Lambeth; registered at London
1881 William Chambers, George Fuller & William Benstead, Rochester
1892 William Gill, George Fuller & William Benstead, Rochester
1896 William Ryan Cunis, London
1899 John Garrett, Charlton
1899 George Francis, London
1900 Broken up
Comments: 1874: Reboilered by Victoria Dock Engine Works Ltd, London
1875: Re-engined
12/1900: Register said "dismantled, boiler & machinery taken out, to be broken up"
Thanks to David Asprey & Bill Harvey for the above details