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Name: ESTHER
Launched: 1835
Completed: 08/1835
Builder: James Blakey Jr, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 22nrt, 55.4 x 13.5 x 7.2ft; (1860: 34grt, 9nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (19 x 24ins), 15nhp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a; (1853: 10162)
History:
08/1835 James Sr, James Jr & David Blakey and John Sharp, North Shields
184X Thomas Legg, North Shields
09/1844 John Driver, Thomas Legg & Harvey Parker, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
10/1844 John Driver, North Shields
05/03/1847 John Driver & John W Robson, North Shields
05/1849 Anthony Strong, North Shields
01/07/1853 JW Robson; registered at Shields
1860 Walter Micklefield, Woolwich & Charles J Mills, Greenwich; registered at London
1861 Charles J Mills, Greenwich
No later history known
Comments: 1907: Deleted from register, "no information on vessel since 1861, owner cannot be found"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details