Tyne tug Lioness 1851

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Name:	LIONESS
Launched:	1851
Completed:	08/1851
Builder:	Thomas D Marshall, South Shields
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Dimensions:	87grt, 21nrt, 94.1 x 17.6 x 9.6ft
Engines:	L2cyl (30.75 & 30.75 x 44ins), 60nhp
Engines by:	Thomas D Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion:	Paddle
Construction:	Iron
Reg Number:	31683

History:
01/08/1851	Thomas, James & William Jolliffe and Thomas Ellis, North Shields
02/03/1853	Henry Cadell, Cockenzie and Robert & Phipps Turnbull, Melbourne; registered at Leith
29/05/1854	George Ward Cole, Melbourne; registered at Melbourne
07/1859	CL Throckmorton, Melbourne
09/1865	CT Ross & JP Chaplin, Melbourne
05/1867	John, David & James Spence, Melbourne & Greymouth, New Zealand
11/1873	James Chesney & Stephen Horne, Melbourne
1881	Grey River Steam Tug Co Ltd, Greymouth, New Zealand; registered at Lyttelton
02/09/1882	Wrecked

Comments:	Meant for operation on River Murray, but on arrival in Australia found to be unsuitable
	02/10/1865: Left Melbourne for New Zealand
	01/03/1876: Stranded on South Spit, Greymouth. Salved & repaired
	02/09/1882 Wrecked on river wall at Greymouth, New Zealand, in gale - machinery salved
	From: Steamers in the South, by RH Parsons, published 1979 by Rigby Ltd
	"...The paddler Lioness came to Australia with the hope of being employed in connection with Cadell?s River Murray Navigation Company, but for reasons not discovered was sold on arrival in Melbourne without any attempt to employ her in the Murray River trades. Employed about Port Phillip, she eventually went to New Zealand, and was stranded at Hokitika on 2 September 1866. Salvaged, she eventually became the property of the Grey River Steam Tug Company, was driven ashore and totally wrecked on 1 September 1882 at Greymouth, when trying to enter the river during a gale..."
	Thanks to Buster J Browne for the above details