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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