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Name: ELSWICK
Launched: 1848
Completed: 08/1848
Builder: J & D Morris, Pelaw Main, Co Durham
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 55grt, 14nrt, 69.0 x 14.0 x 8.4 ft; (1864: 48grt, 11nrt, 71.6 x 15.5 x 8.2ft)
Engines: 40nhp; (1864: L1cyl, 20nhp)
Engines by: Joseph Gray, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 6911
History:
07/08/1848 John & Robert Newton, Gateshead; registered at Newcastle
11/1848 John & Robert Newton and Robert Taylor, Gateshead
06/1863 Joseph Gray, Shields
1869 Joseph Gray et al, Shields
05/1873 John Morton, Shields
03/1876 Broken up
Comments: 1864: Lengthened


The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday, March 28, 1860