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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