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Name: SUN
Launched: 1839
Completed: 1839
Builder: Andrew Bell, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 53grt, 30nrt, 75.3 x 13.0 x 6.7ft
Engines: 18hp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1839 Unknown owner
28/05/1840 Port of Tyne Improved Steam Navigation Co, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
09/08/1844 Thomas Stoker, North Shields
14/01/1845 Thomas Stoker and Mark Fryer, Bellingham
01/07/1845 Andrew Frazer, Newcastle
1845 Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments: May not have been a tug
24/12/1845: Registry closed as "sold foreign"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details