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Name: PIONEER
Launched:
Completed: 1863
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 19nrt, 76.8 x 15.6 x 8.4ft
Engines: SL1cyl (28 x 45ins), 24nhp
Engines By: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 45597
History:
1863 Henry Jobes & Thomas Barlow, North Shields; registered at Shields
1866 Andrew P Gilmore, Belfast; registered at Belfast
1866 Hugh Andrews, Belfast
1870 Hugh Andrews Jnr, Belfast
1875 R, J & J Dodds, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1882 Charles Olver Rundle, Cardiff
1883 Registered at Cardiff
1891 Broken up
Comments: Probably sold by Rundle some years before 1891
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Western Mail, Thursday, March 6, 1890