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Name: GREAT EXTENDED
Launched:
Completed: 1862
Builder: R Stobbs, Coble Dene, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 70grt, 23nrt, 80.9 x 16.4 x 8.8ft
Engines: L1cyl, 28nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 44296
History:
07/1862 Robert, Jane & Margaret Forster and Robert Findlay, North Shields; registered at Shields
1866 Samuel Wills Hutchings et al, Teignmouth; registered at Teignmouth
1871 George PN Burden, Teignmouth
17/04/1878 Wrecked
09/07/1878 Wreck sold at public auction
08/1878 Alfred Bodley, Exeter; registered at Teignmouth
1879 George PN Burden, Teignmouth; renamed PIONEER
1893 Broken up
Comments: 17/04/1878: Struck on the Point entering Teignmouth harbour.
24/08/1889: Sank at her moorings on the River Teign
JP Almond also given as the builder on the registration documents
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Saturday, June 29, 1878

Birmingham Daily Post, Monday, August 26, 1889