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Name: COMET
Launched: 1833
Completed: 30/04/1833
Builder: Edward Robson, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 41grt, 13nrt, 57.2 x 13.6 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:
09/05/1833 WC Lee, A West, T Brown, J Sinclair & N Brown, South Shields
09/05/1833 Registered at Newcastle
06/11/1835 WC Lee, A West & J Sinclair, South Shields
13/11/1835 WC Lee & J Sinclair, South Shields
05/09/1837 G Brown & J Sinclair, South Shields
14/06/1838 C & A Strong, South Shields
13/04/1839 William Rendles & John Hall, North Shields
22/06/1839 Hopper Jobling, Newcastle
07/04/1840 Anthony Strong, Newcastle
11/10/1844 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