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Name: TURK
Launched: 26/11/1856
Completed: 02/1857
Builder: Richard Stobbs, Coble Dene, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 126grt, 21nrt, 107.3 x 19.0 x 10.8ft
Engines: L2cyl (30 & 30 x 46ins), 65nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10100
History:
07/02/1857 Richard Swan, North Shields & John Swan, London; registered at Shields
1858 Unknown owner, Overseas
No later history known
Comments:


North & South Shields Gazette, Saturday, 31/01/1857