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Name: JONATHAN BLACKLOCK
Launched:
Completed: 1864
Builder: JD Burdis, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 76grt, 22nrt, 81.2 x 17.5 x 9.2ft; (1881: 76grt, 14nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 31nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 49749
History:
17/08/1864 Joseph Blacklock & William Lamb Blacklock, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
10/1865 J & WL Blacklock and Henry Morrison, North Shields
11/1869 James Laughton, Jonathan E Smith and George Heckels, North Shields
10/1871 James Laughton and Thomas Watson, North Shields
11/1871 James Laughton, North Shields
20/05/1872 William & Henry Brown, Gateshead, Dorothy Brown and Edward Forster, Newcastle
29/08/1876 William, Henry & Dorothy Brown, Gateshead
26/04/1883 William, Henry & Dorothy Brown and John Thomas Forster, Newcastle
10/1886 William & Dorothy Brown and John Thomas Forster
21/10/1886 John Thomas Forster and Edward Forster, Newcastle
1892 Broken up
Comments: 03/09/1879: Henry Brown died. Interests maintained until 1886 through his executors
William Brown and Thomas Brown were shipbuilders
10/1886: Dorothy Brown married Joseph Snowball Blackett a Newcastle river pilot
Blackett then sold Dorothy Brown's shares in the tug
Many thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above painting of JONATHAN BLACKLOCK courtesy of John Cole

A family heirloom painting which came to his wife via Henry Brown's daughter Mary Isabella (b 1851)

The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/07/1876