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Name: COMET
Launched: 1833
Completed: 1833
Builder: Edward Robson, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 41grt, 13nrt, 56.0 x 12.6 x 7.2ft; (1840: 47grt, 17nrt, 62.9 x 12.6 x 7.6ft)
Engines: L1cyl (24.5 x 34ins), 20hp
Engines by: Waites & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1833 Thomas Brown, James Sinclair et al, South Shields
1838 George Brown & James Sinclair, South Shields
1839 William Rendles & John Hall, North Shields
1839 Hopper Jobling, Newcastle
1840 Anthony Strong, Newcastle
1844 Stephen Smith, South Shields
02/03/1847 Stephen Gray, Hull; registered at Hull
23/10/1848 Sank
Comments: 1840: Lengthened by James Dowey at North Shields
23/10/1848: Wrecked on Spurn Point


The Morning Chronicle (London), Wednesday, 25/10/1848

The Hull Packet and East Riding Times, Friday, 27/10/1848