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Name: PILOT
Launched: 22/01/1852
Completed: 1852
Builder: Andrew Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 95grt, 32nrt, 84.3 x 16.8 x 9.5ft; (1859: 101grt, 26nrt, 84.8 x 17.9 x 9.5ft)
Engines: 45nhp; (1859: 49nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2124
History:
27/04/1852 South Shields Pilot Society, Shields
1857 Messrs Harrison & Co, Shields
1858 John Moody & Charles Seale; registered at Dartmouth
1859 Dartmouth Steam Packet Co, Dartmouth
1865 Dartmouth Steam Packet Co Ltd
1879 Unknown owners
1881 Broken up
Comments: Built as a pilot vessel and tug
1859: Converted to passenger carrying


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, January 30, 1852