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Name: CORSAIR
Launched: 1852
Completed: 03/1852
Builder: A Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 81grt, 33nrt, 76.6 x 15.0 x 8.7ft; (1860: 59grt, 12nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 35nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 16155
History:
01/03/1852 J White, South Shields; registered at Shields
1859 A Laing & A Boyne, Leith; registered at Leith
1860 Alexander Boyne et al, Leith
07/11/1867 Wrecked
Comments: 07/11/1867: Wrecked on the Catcraig Rocks near Dunbar
On a voyage from Leith to Sunderland