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Name: EXPERT
Launched: 1856
Completed: 09/1856
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 52grt, 10nrt, 75.2 x 15.3 x 8.2ft
Engines: 25nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 17044
History:
04/09/1856 Lawson & Milburn; registered at Shields
1861 John R Lawson, South Shields
1869 Samuel Tate Freeman, London
04/01/1886 Sank
Comments: 04/01/1886: Sank off Sunderland after a collision with DESPATCH


Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 05/01/1886
Image courtesy of Pete Bullimore