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Name: EXPRESS
Launched: 1848
Completed: 12/1848
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 38grt, 16nrt, 70.0 x 12.3 x 6.5ft; (1862: 35grt, 10nrt, 72.2 x 13.3 x 6.5ft)
Engines: 18hp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26963
History:
02/12/1848 Thomas Nelson; registered at Newcastle
1857 G Hope, Newcastle
1858 John Dixon et al, Newcastle
1861 Robert Tait et al, Newcastle
1870 John William Forster, Newcastle
by 1871 Broken up
Comments: 01/12/1871: Certified as broken up
Often seen as built at South Shields. Marshall probably prime contractor