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Name: HOPE
Launched: 1859
Completed: 1859
Builder: Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 90grt, 19nrt, 89.3 x 17.4 x 9.0ft
Engines: 2cyl, 50nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 27241
History:
27/05/1859 Unknown owner; registered at London
27/05/1862 James Letten, Thomas & Henry Roxberry, William B Dodds,
Matthew C Butler and George Swettenham, Gravesend
by 01/08/1862 Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments: 04/02/1860: Engaged in salving cargo from the stranded ship EARL OF EGLINTON in
St Margaret's Bay
02/06/1860: Towed a Spanish ship which had lost bowsprit and anchor into Ramsgate and then broke down herself