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Name: MORNING STAR
Launched: 1832
Completed: 21/03/1832
Builder: Thomas Potts, St Anthony's, Northumberland
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 20tonsb, 56.0 x 14..3 x 7.5ft; (1840: 44grt, 9nrt, 54.7 x 13.3 x 7.7ft)
Engines: 1cyl (24 x 28ins), 32hp
Engines by: Thomas Bulcraig, Gateshead
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
24/04/1832 J Gibson, J Johnson & WH Ainsworth et al; registered at Newcastle
21/04/1835 J Johnson, H Mayors & J Dove, Newcastle
05/02/1839 W Lindley & J Patterson, Newcastle
10/12/1839 T Stoker, North Shields
18/04/1840 Thomas Stokoe, North Shields and Mark Friar & Robert Hall, Chirton
30/04/1841 Ralph Stoker & John Swanson, Leith and Mark Friar & Robert Hall, Chirton
06/03/1844 Ralph Stoker, Leith and Mark Friar & Robert Hall, Chirton, North Shields
1846 Broken up
Comments: 28/04/1839: A boiler exploded at Willington Quay
13/06/1846: Register closed as "Broken up"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Thanks to Pete Bullimore for this cutting from Friday 03/05/1839