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Name: SECRET
Launched:
Completed: 1851
Builder: J Grant, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 43grt, 16nrt, 67.3 x 13.0 x 7.2 ft; (1858: 38grt, 11nrt); (1864: 69.5 x 14.1 x 7.2ft)
Engines: 18nhp; (1864: 24nhp); (1874: 21nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2744
History:
21/06/1851 A Law, Shields
03/06/1854 George Lamb, Shields
1855 William Laythorpe et al; registered at Sunderland
1863 J Wilson et al, Middlesbrough
1865 William Wilson et al, Sunderland
1867 Thomas Gale, Sunderland
1872 Matthew Dent, Jarrow; registered at Newcastle
by 1880 John Kerr, Newcastle
No further history known
Comments: 24/02/1860: Crushed between two vessels at Sunderland. Heavily damaged.
1894: Register closed