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Name: SIR CHARLES NAPIER
Launched:
Completed: 27/07/1854
Builder: Robert & Richard Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 19nrt, 71.8 x 14.2 x 8.3ft;
(1857: 51grt, 13nrt, 72.9 x 15.0 x 8.3ft); (1872: 51grt, 5nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 28nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7648
History:
27/07/1854 William Hall, Whitehill Point, Northumberland; registered at Shields
1856 James & John Steel; John Cunningham & Kenneth McCaskill, Glasgow & Greenock
1857 Registered at Glasgow
1859 James Steel, Glasgow
1860 John Steel, Glasgow
1869 John Gardner, Glasgow
1872 William Liddell, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow
1887 Broken up
Comments: 10/09/1856: William Hall drowned
1858: Trading as The Glasgow & Greenock Shipping Co


The Belfast News-Letter, Saturday, 13/09/1856

Glasgow Herald, Monday, 20/12/1858