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Name: VESTA
Launched: 1847
Completed: 1847
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 36grt, 10nrt, 58.3 x 12.8 x 7.0ft; (1856: 32grt, 7nrt);
(1871: 60.9 x 14.0 x 7.0ft)
Engines: SL1cyl (23 x 40ins), 20nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2492
History:
1847 David Laws, North Shields
1848 David Sams, North Shields
07/03/1853 Edward Brown, Monkwearmouth; registered at Sunderland
14/03/1871 Thomas Gray, George Ford & William Tulley; registered at Hull
04/09/1875 Fairley Downs, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1876 Ralph Hurdman, Sunderland
1877 John Wallace Taylor et al, Sunderland
1879 Charles Ecclestone et al, Newcastle
1881 Registered at Newcastle
1882 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details