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Name: NEWCASTLE
Launched: 1824
Completed: 03/1824
Builder: R Ridley, North Shore, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 34tonsb, 65.5 x 16.3 x 7.0ft;
(1837: 93grt,42nrt, 86.0 x 14.6 x 9.8ft); (1859: 77grt, 32nrt)
Engines: Grasshopper type, 45nhp
Engines by: W Hawks, Gateshead
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: (1851: 4376)
History:
29/03/1824 W Brown, R Anderson, R Digmoure & M Knox, Newcastle
10/06/1826 W Lorraine, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
05/07/1833 John Coull Carr, Bishopswearmouth
21/12/1836 William Forster, Wapping
29/08/1837 William Copeland, Walter Urquhart, Edward Oswin & Thomas Drape, London;
Trading as Symington Patent Paddle Towing Co, London
03/03/1847 William Gunston, Walter Urquhart, Edward Oswin & Thomas Drape, London;
Trading as Ship Owners' Towing Co, London
01/11/1851 Registered at London
22/05/1858 Thomas Iremonger, Stephen Olliver & Thomas Marshall, Littlehampton
22/05/1858 Registered at Arundel
08/08/1863 W Nutter and G Winton, Littlehampton
1866 Broken up
Comments: 05/04/1837: Lengthened and rebuilt   
Possibly renamed NEPTUNE for a period during 1840s
1866: Registry closed as "stated to be broken up"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details