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Name: LION
Launched: 1847
Completed: 06/1847
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 13nrt, 68.6 x 14.5 x 8.4ft; (1860: 51grt, 13nrt, 71.3 x 15.6 x 8.2ft)
Engines: 1cyl (29.5 x 40ins), 28nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 7753
History:
02/06/1847 William & Thomas Jolliffe and James Johnson, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
1853 Robert Hall & Richard Fryer, Leith
18/06/1853 Registered at Leith
1855 Robert Hall & Sarah Stoker, Leith
1860 Robert Hall, Leith and Joseph Campbell, Robert Hall Jr & Alfred Bullock, South Shields
1860 Registered at Shields
1869 Broken up
Comments: 1869: Broken up at Low Walker
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details