Name: | GIPSY QUEEN |
Launched: | 1857 |
Completed: | 1857 |
Builder: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 48grt, 11nrt, 74.5 x 15.2 x 17.8ft |
Engines: | 24nhp |
Engines By: | |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 19384 |
History: | |
1857 | William Forster; registered at Newcastle |
1860 | Matilda Gallon, Newcastle |
1861 | Philip Clendon; registered at Shields |
1873 | Mrs Martha A Clendon, Shields |
1876 | Henry Burton, registered at Hull |
1879 | Henry Richardson, registered at Grimsby |
1884 | Alfred Cooper, New Clee, Lincolnshire |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 26/12/1873: On hire to the River Tyne Commissioners to carry dredging crew from |
North & South Shields upriver to various dredgers & hoppers working at Newcastle | |
Early that morning, she was carrying some 40 men & boys plus the crew of the tug | |
Near Howdon Dock she ran into a hopper that had sunk in the river days earlier | |
The sunken wreckage was clearly marked at each end | |
A hole was torn in the bottom of the tug & she sank within minutes | |
18 men & 1 boy drowned | |
03/01/1874: Tug raised & subsequently repaired |