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 5.0(draft)ft; (1855: 72grt, 25nrt, 72.2 x 15.1 x 8.3ft); |
(1859: 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 | Middlesbrough-on-Tees Steam Tug Co, Middlesbrough |
13/06/1842 | Registered at Stockton |
25/07/1848 | Wisbech Steam Towing Co (John Stoneham Buckley, manager); registered at Wisbech |
1850 | John Stoneham Buckley, Wisbech |
16/02/1854 | William Teall, Hull; registered at Hull |
15/07/1858 | Francis Sill, Middlesbrough; registered at Stockton |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 13/06/1842: William Fallows, William Cole, William Harrison and others |
1850: Cost at auction £560 | |
1867: British registry closed | |
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |
The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 07/02/1840