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Name: PLEIADES
Launched:
Completed: 1858
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 78grt; 16nrt, 84.3 x 17.1 x 8.9ft
Engines: SL1cyl, 40nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 19200
History:
1858 W Reay, Portsmouth
1864 W Ray, London
1866 Richard Morgan et al, Cardiff
1886 William Brazier, Shoreham
1888 Thomas Marlborough Scott, Sunderland; registered at Shoreham
18XX Hepple & Co
1891 Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Stockton
No later history known
Comments: 1901: Converted to a lighter
1902: Register closed