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Name: VENTURE
Launched: 1858
Completed: 1858
Builder: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 52grt, 9nrt, 76.7 x 15.0 x 8.4ft
Engines: SL1cyl (27.5 x ?), 27nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 21287
History:
1858 Joseph Lough; registered at Newcastle
1861 G Elliott, Newcastle
1864 Robert Brown & Co; registered at Shields
1866 Peter Cunningham, Shields
1871 David Dunn, Shields
1873 Peter Cunningham, North Shields
by 1879 William T Brown, North Shields
1881 Joseph Falcus, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1890 Robert Carmichael, Felling Shore
No later history known
Comments: 1904: Register closed


Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 28/05/1864