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Name: DUCHESS
Launched: 29/09/1885
Completed: 01/1886
Builder: Lawson & Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 4
Dimensions: 104grt, 2nrt, 96.0 x 18.1 x 9.0ft; (1891: 104grt, 12nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (34.5 x 52ins), 42nhp
Engines by: RB Findley & Son, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 89813
History:
22/01/1886 John Thomas Davison, North Shields; registered at North Shields
08/08/1893 Charles Weatherburn, Thomas Davison Hall & William Reed, South Shields
21/09/1899 Matthew Thompson MacMillan, Cullercoats
26/12/1899 Robert Jobson, West Hartlepool
No later history known
Comments: Also used as a steam trawler
07/04/1904: Converted to a lighter & register closed