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Name: TOM BOWLINE
Launched:
Completed: 1848
Builder: William Thoburn & Thomas Grant, Coble Dean, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 43grt, 14nrt, 63.5 x 12.8 x 7.7ft; (1858: 49grt; 20nrt); (1871: 43grt, 14nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 25nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 23605
History:
25/04/1848 Edward Flinn, North Shields; registered at Shields
03/11/1852 Nicholas Cook & Francis Welch, Monkwearmouth and James Duncan, Aberdeen
03/11/1852 Registered at Sunderland
07/10/1876 Sank
Comments: In the press cutting below she is mistakenly referred to as TOM BOWLING
07/10/1876: Sank in River Wear, and then sold as a wreck
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 04/02/1853