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Name: SAINT CLAIR or SAINT CLARE
Launched:
Completed: 1853
Builder: Thoburn & Grant, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 40grt, 16nrt, 67.2 x 12.8 x 6.9ft; (1859: 36grt, 11nrt, 70.0 x 13.9 x 7.0ft)
Engines: L1cyl, 18nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2174
History:
30/11/1853 Robert Reay, North Shields; registered at Shields
06/1858 John Scott, Blaydon; registered at Newcastle
06/1861 Robert Forster, Lemington
07/1868 William (Sr & Jr), Thomas & Joseph Thompson, Newcastle
08/1870 Cressey Jewitt, Grimsby; registered at Grimsby
1874 Mrs MA Jewitt, Grimsby
1884 Broken up
Comments: 15/05/1858: Grounded & sunk at Sunderland
1859: Refloated and rebuilt
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details