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Name: ST MICHAEL or SAINT MICHAEL
Launched: 1838
Completed: 15/09/1838
Builder: S Wood, Gateshead
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 31grt, 10nrt, 51.3 x 12.0 x 6.6ft; (1853: 36grt, 11nrt, 59.5 x 11.7 x 6.8ft)
Engines: Grasshopper type, 1cyl, 10nhp; (1857: 14nrt)
Engines by: Young
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 9069
History:
1838 Unknown owner
06/11/1840 H Knill, London; registered at London
07/11/1840 J Knill & R Thornton, London
02/03/1841 D Barker, London
31/03/1841 D Barker & T Petley, London
19/11/1841 T Petley et al, London
29/11/1841 D Barker, T Petley et al, London
30/05/1845 D Barker, London
by 1865 Walter Thomas Phillips, London
No later history known
Comments: 14/06/1849: Sank in the River Thames after a boiler explosion
31/12/1858: Sank in the River Thames after a collision with PANTHER
27/01/1886: Register closed as "Vessel not found"


Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Sunday, 17/06/1849

The Morning Chronicle, Wednesday, 05/01/1859