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Name: FRIENDS
Launched: 1861
Completed: 07/1861
Builder: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 49grt, 15nrt, 75.6 x 15.1 x 7.9ft
Engines: 25nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 29865
History:
15/07/1861 Burton Brown et al, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1869 Thomas Brown Patterson et al, Sunderland
1880 Samuel Wood, George Bright & Thomas Murray; registered at Newcastle
1897 G Bright, T Murray, W Cross & Elizabeth Story, Lemington
1905 William Cross, South Benwell
1909 Jonathan Hall Cook & Edward Cook, Felling
1914 Thomas Lumsden, Felling
1919 Matthew White, Newcastle
1920 Charles J Robson, Newcastle
1926 Broken up
Comments: 1861: Owners were a group of Sunderland pilots
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship