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Name: FIREBRAND
Launched: 1847
Completed: 06/1847
Builder: James Dowey, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 66grt, 18nrt, 72.4 x 15.0 x 8.7 ft; (1858: 60grt, 15nrt, 74.9 x 16.1 x 8.6ft)
Engines: L1cyl, 34nhp
Engines by: George Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7318
History:
18/06/1847 George Hunter, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
23/06/1847 James Rennoldson, South Shields
21/02/1848 James Ayre, William Jamieson, Robert Thurlbeck, Thomas Brown, Hill Parker,
Thomas Longstaff, William Dunn & Joseph Robertson, Sunderland
24/05/1851 William Longstaff, James Jamieson, Robert Thurlbeck, Thomas Brown,
Hill Parker and Ann Young, Sunderland
1857 Isaac Wilson, Robert Thompson & William Fallows, Stockton & Middlesbrough
1857 Registered at Stockton
1861 William Fallows et al, Middlesbrough
1864 CC Duncan, Middlesbrough
1867 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 06/08/1847