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Name: GEORGE CROW
Launched: 13/07/1867
Completed: 1867
Builder: Charles Mitchell & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 158
Dimensions: 24grt, 15nrt, 68.5 x 10.9 x 4.5ft
Engines: L1cyl, 15nhp
Engines by: R Stephenson, Newcastle
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81962
History:
1876 George Robert Stephenson, Newcastle
1878 North British Railway Co, Dundee
1879 Registered Granton; renamed JAMES COX
1884 Joseph Constant, London
1887 WC Middleton, Sligo; registered Sligo; renamed BOWMORE
1XXX AJ Middleton, Sligo
1904 Wrecked
Comments: Originally a tender to Robert Stephenson's yacht NORTHUMBRIA
Became a Tyne ferry, a fishing vessel & then a tug in later life
11/11/1904: Wrecked at Rosses Point, Sligo, Ireland


Shields Daily News, Monday, 15/07/1867