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Name: PROTECTOR
Launched: 04/1869
Completed: 07/1869
Builder: JD Burdis, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 89grt, 12nrt, 89.3 x 18.0 x 9.5ft
Engines: L1cyl (34 x 48ins), 40nhp
Engines By: RJ Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 60526
History:
29/07/1869 James Dunn Burdis, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1874 Samuel Lawther, Belfast
1880 Registered at Belfast
by 1888 T McCracken, Belfast
11/05/1888 Sank
Comments: 11/05/1888: Left Belfast, for towing & struck floating wreckage
Abandoned & sank about 8 miles SW by W of Mull of Cantyre, North Channel
Mull of Cantyre is now known as Mull of Kintyre
Thanks to John Evans & David Asprey for the above details