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Name: PILOT
Launched: 19/12/1855
Completed: 1856
Builder: A Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 83grt, 52nrt, 86.1 x 18.1 x 9.6ft
Engines: 45nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7369
History:
30/04/1856 John Lindsay, Richard Crick, George Gibbins Sr, Thomas Wilson & Henry Brown, Sunderland
30/04/1856 Registered at Sunderland
1868 William Minto, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1872 John Minto, North Shields
1881 William Minto, North Shields
1886 Broken up
Comments: John Lindsay et al were pilots at Sunderland
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


North & South Shields Gazette, Wednesday, Dec 19th 1855