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Name: LIGHTNING
Launched: 01/1864
Completed: 09/1864
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 85grt, 27nrt, 90.2 x 18.4 x 9.1ft
Engines: L1cyl, (33.5 x 50ins), 40nhp
Engines by: J Hepple
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 49752
History:
23/09/1864 John & George Bewick, North Shields; registered at Shields
1866 Charles Olver Rundle & William Rundle et al, Cardiff
1870 Charles O & William Rundle and Henry Rundle, Waterford; registered at Cardiff
1880 John Minto, North Shields and William & Michael Minto, Leith; registered at Leith
1882 Crawford Noble, Aberdeen
10/1886 Broken up
Comments: 10/1886: Broken up at Sunderland
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details