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Name: PROSPECT
Launched: 1837
Completed: 06/03/1837
Builder: Andrew Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 64grt, 23nrt, 67.9 x 14.9 x 8.3ft; (1859: 55grt 55nrt 71.4 x 16.7 x 7.3ft)
Engines: 27nhp; (1859: None)
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle; (1859: Sail, rigged as a Ketch)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10692
History:
17/03/1837 Thomas Jameson, Thomas Beadness, John Hepple et al, South Shields
17/03/1837 Registered at Newcastle
30/04/1841 William Burton, Sunderland
02/06/1841 Registered at Sunderland
05/10/1846 William Bird & David Lewis, Cardiff
04/11/1846 Registered at Cardiff
05/11/1846 W Bird, D Lewis & C Williams et al, Cardiff
28/06/1850 Cardiff Steam Tug Co, Cardiff
07/02/1859 William Thomas, Cardiff
1870 Broken up
Comments: 1859: Engine removed and converted to a sailing vessel
17/04/1873: Register closed
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details