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Name: LITTLE WESTERN
Launched: 1844
Completed: 07/1844
Builder: George Brown, South Shore, Gateshead
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 36grt, 13nrt, 75.4 x 10.4 x 9.6ft
Engines: L1cyl (20 x 30ins), 14nhp
Engines by: Jonathan Robson, Gateshead
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26957
History:
15/07/1844 Edward Hutchinson, Newcastle
by 1852 Thompson & Edward Hutchinson and Edward Robson, Newcastle
07/10/1852 Thomas Woolston, Edward Robson & Joshua Audas, Gateshead
18/02/1853 Stephenson & John Chisholm, North Shields
18/02/1853 Benjamin Bootiman, Newcastle
12/02/1855 Registered at Newcastle
05/1858 Robert Redhead & William Gray, Newcastle
03/1859 Robert Armstrong et al, Newcastle
05/1860 Jane Dixon, Middlesbrough
1861 Registered at Middlesbrough
09/1862 Roger Walker, Felling
06/1863 John Wake et al, Newcastle
01/1868 Broken up
Comments: 01/1868: Broken up at North Shields