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Name: COMET
Launched: 1889
Completed: 1889
Builder: W Cook, Middlesbrough
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 29grt, 5nrt, 60.2 x 14.1 x 7.0ft
Engines: S2cyl (12 & 12 x 12ins), 18nhp
Engines by: Vosper & Clark, Portsmouth (engine built 1882)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97950
History:
22/10/1890 A Brown Ltd, Middlesbrough; registered Newcastle
10/1897 Edward C Turner (T/a Page & Turner), Blakeney, Norfolk
03/1908 Edward, Ellis & Alfred Turner (T/a Page & Turner), Blakeney
05/1916 Charles S Robinson, Great Yarmouth
08/1916 Walter C Reeder, London
03/1917 John T Rayfield, Gravesend
01/1918 Joseph E Turner, Weymouth
03/1918 William Chrystal Duncan, Redcar
23/10/1918 Charles Duncan & Sons Ltd, Middlesbrough
02/01/1919 Renamed BETSY DUNCAN
30/04/1920 G Wardle & T Mowat, South Shields
09/1920 G Wardle, South Shields
25/11/1920 JG Potts, Sunderland
27/03/1922 Sank
Comments: 03/12/1890: Boiler exploded at Newcastle Quayside
27/03/1922: Sank in South Dock, Sunderland & subsequently broken up


Above photo as COMET is courtesy of George Robinson

Above photo as COMET is courtesy of Stephen Carter