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Name: TRANSIT
Launched:
Completed: 1848
Builder: D Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 50grt, 14nrt, 65.2 x 14.5 x 7.8ft; (1862: 48grt, 14nrt, 67.6 x 16.2 x 7.8ft)
Engines: 26nhp; (1862: 24nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 23745
History:
15/08/1848 J Barry, Leith
02/11/1853 WT & J Bell, J Armstrong et al; registered at Sunderland
1861 William Turnbull et al; registered at Shields
1862 JP Almond, Shields
No further history known
Comments: 1862: Rebuilt and also re-engined (probably by JP Almond)
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details