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Name: FREEDOM
Launched: 1871
Completed: 08/1871
Builder: DJ Stewart, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 85grt, 9nrt, 86.1 x 17.9 x 9.4ft
Engines: SL1cyl (31.25 x 48ins), 32nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 65403
History:
09/11/1871 Robert Brough Findley & Robert Forster, North Shields; registered at North Shields
05/06/1874 Isaac Wilson, Middlesbrough & North Eastern Railway Co (John Cleghorn, London)
1874 Registered at West Hartlepool
1881 North Eastern Railway Co, York
1889 Robert Stewart & Thomas Dunn Marshall, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1893 Robert Stewart, Thomas D Marshall & Charles E Walton, South Shields
1898 Robert Stewart and Thomas & John Lodge, North Shields
10/1903 Broken up
Comments: 1874: John Cleghorn was the Secretary for the North Eastern Railway Co
10/1903: Broken up by MacMullin, Cullercoats