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Name: SAMSON
Launched: 1846
Completed: 08/1846
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 70grt, 24nrt, 79.0 x 15.8 x 8.7ft
Engines:
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
20/08/1846 David Blakey, Middlesbrough; registered at Stockton
23/07/1849 Messrs Bolckow & Vaughan, Middlesbrough
185x Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments: 1859: British registry closed as "previously sold foreign"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details