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Name: MIDDLESBRO also seen as MIDDLESBOROUGH
Launched: 1839
Completed: 12/1839
Builder: Andrew Bell, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 69grt, 22nrt, 72.2 x 14.0 x 8.4ft; (1854: 72grt, 25nrt, 72.2 x 15.1 x 8.4ft);
(1858: 64grt, 13nrt, 73.8 x 16.5 x 8.4ft)
Engines: 1cyl (32 x ?ins), 36nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 5531
History:
12/1839 Unknown owner, not registered
13/07/1842 Middlesbrough-on-Tees Steam Tug Co; registered at Stockton
25/07/1848 Wisbech Steam Towing Co (John Stoneham Buckley, manager); registered at Wisbech
16/02/1854 William Teall, Hull; registered at Hull
01/06/1858 Francis Gill, Middlesbrough; registered at Stockton
No later history known
Comments: 13/06/1842: William Fallows, William Cole, William Harrison and others
1854: Cost at auction £560
04/01/1867: British registry closed
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 07/02/1840