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Name: DEFIANCE
Launched:
Completed: 1854
Builder: A Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 83grt, 22nrt, 80.8 x 16.0 x 9.3ft; (1859: 79grt, 17nrt);
(1865: 74grt, 17nrt, 83.4 x 17.1 x 9.3ft)
Engines: 40nhp; (1865: L1cyl (35 x 46ins), 50nhp)
Engines By: JD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7486
History:
25/05/1854 Charles Scott, Greenock
1862 James Park et al, Greenock
1866 United Steam Towing & Nav Co, Port Glasgow
1869 John Anderson & Robert Chater; registered at North Shields
1872 John Turnbull, North Shields
1876 EH Lishman
1878 R Moore, Newcastle
1884 W Purdy, North Shields
1891 T Dowson, South Shields
1900 Broken up
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