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