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Name: FURY
Launched: 08/07/1857
Completed: 08/1857
Builder: Hepple & Landells, Coble Dene, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 69grt, 16nrt, 80.7 x 17.1 x 9.0ft
Engines: L1cyl, 30nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Landells, Coble Dene, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 19399
History:
31/08/1857 Jacob Tweedy, North Shields & Robert Tweedy, Blyth, registered at Shields
1868 Jacob Tweedy & Mary Swinney, North Shields
1881 J Robson & Co, Bill Quay; renamed CONFIDENCE
1881 John Lakey Jr, Grimsby; John Lakey Sr, Newcastle; William Gray, Newcastle; also:
David Robinson, Netherton and Margaret Dixon, Felling
1886 John Lakey Jr, Grimsby; registered at Grimsby
1898 Thomas P Rayson, Sunderland
1899 Broken up
Comments: 1880: Sank during a gale & wreck sold for £85
1881: Re-engined with a new 30nhp engine
1899: Probably broken up by Thomas P Rayson who was an iron merchant


North & South Shields Gazette, Thursday, 09/07/1857

Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 03/11/1880