Name: | HENRY WRIGHT |
Launched: | 1852 |
Completed: | 04/1852 |
Builder: | A Woodhouse, South Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 113grt, 42nrt, 93.8 x 18.0 x 9.7ft |
Engines: | 2cyl (28.5 & 28.5 x 44ins), 60hp |
Engines by: | JP Rennoldson, South Shields |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
17/04/1852 | William Wright, South Shields; registered at Shields |
02/06/1852 | Wiliam & George Wright and John, Robert & George Gibson, South Shields |
1858 | HG Graham et al, South Shields |
by 1865 | HG Graham, Constantinople |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 06/06/1852: Sailed from South Shields for Constantinople |
10/1852: Caught fire while anchored in the Bosphorus. Considerable damage | |
31/01/1889: Register closed as "sprang a leak whilst towing a raft in the Black Sea, | |
in the summer of 1865 or 1866" |
Above painting of HENRY WRIGHT by John Scott, dated 1852, is copyright South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Daily News (London), Friday, 05/11/1852