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Name: GREAT BRITAIN
Launched: 16/04/1874
Completed: 05/1874
Builder: J & P Winlo, South Shields
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 100grt, 16nrt, 99.7 x 18.2 x 9.9ft
Engines: SL1cyl (35 x 50ins); 60nhp
Engines By: J Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 63030
History:
25/05/1874 Thomas A Dry et al, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1879 J Winlo & Co, South Shields
1886 Registered at South Shields
1896 George Brown, South Shields
1905 Broken up
Comments: 1905: Broken up at Shields
Name was displayed as Gt BRITAIN


Above: GREAT BRITAIN in Brown's colours at North Shields. Photo is copyright South Shields Library

Above photo is courtesy of Mori Flapan