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Name: SENSATION
Launched: 1867
Completed: 04/1867
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 91grt, 21nrt, 90.2 x 18.6 x 9.7ft; (1869: 91grt, 10nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (33.25 x 50ins), 40nhp
Engines by: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 56054
History:
16/04/1867 Robert Redhead & William Gray, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
by 1874 George Perkins Ward, Teignmouth, Devon
by 1881 Robert & Mark H Redhead, Newcastle (t/a Robert Redhead & Son)
11/1901 Sank
Comments: 11/1901 Foundered off Hartlepool