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Name: VESTA
Launched: 1855
Completed: 03/1856
Builder: R & R Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 56grt, 13nrt, 76.4 x 15.3 x 8.3ft
Engines: SL1cyl (28 x ?ins), 30nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 13303
History:
19/03/1856 Joseph Shield, William Gray, George Harrison & Arthur Alexander; registered at Belfast
1857 Robert Alexander et al, Belfast
1862 Hugh Andrews et al, Belfast
1870 Hugh Andrews Jnr, Belfast
1887 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 07/06/1858