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Name: GEM
Launched: 1857
Completed: 11/1857
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 39grt, 8nrt, 63.8 x 14.5 x 7.5
Engines: 1cyl (23.5 x 45ins), 20nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 20488
History:
26/11/1857 William Laythorpe et al; registered at Sunderland
19/03/1863 Charles Temple, Blakeney & Joshua Porritt, Clay; registered at Wells
04/1863 BH Nichols, Blakeney
05/1871 Charles Temple, Blakeney
28/12/1872 Edward Brown, Monkwearmouth; registered at Sunderland
06/03/1877 Michael Cook, Sunderland
08/1879 Henry Wilson, Fairley Downs et al, Sunderland
10/07/1891 Henry Wilson, Sunderland
09/03/1892 Joseph McLean, South Shields
11/05/1897 John Lindsey, St Anthony's
10/11/1898 Archibald Wilson, Felling Shore, Gateshead & John Lindsey, St Anthony's
11/10/1899 Archibald Wilson, Felling Shore, Gateshead
10/12/1908 Archibald Wilson, Gateshead and William & John W Chambers, Newcastle
09/12/1909 Archibald Wilson, Gateshead & William Chambers, Newcastle
16/08/1912 Joshua Bagnall, Ouseburn & William Chambers, Newcastle
1913 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details