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Name: PILOT
Launched: 1866
Completed: 05/1866
Builder: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 3
Dimensions: 69grt, 22nrt, 79.5 x 16.9 x 8.9ft
Engines: L1cyl, 30nhp
Engines by: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 54852
History:
16/05/1866 James Potts et al, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1868 Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle
1895 William Hepple, South Shields
1895 John Robson, South Shields
1903 Broken up
Comments: Broken up by F Graham & Co, Swalwell, Tyneside
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo is courtesy of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society