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Name: WEARMOUTH
Launched: 18/07/1860
Completed: 09/1860
Builder: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 55grt, 16nrt, 74.0 x 15.4 x 8.2ft; (1892: 55grt, 6nrt)
Engines: 1cyl, 25nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 28795
History:
20/10/1860 William & John Bell, Jacob Hurdman and George Newton, Sunderland
20/10/1860 Registered at Sunderland
05/1885 George Newton et al, Sunderland
11/1891 Henderson & Edward Brown, Sunderland
07/1896 Alfred Graham, Sunderland
01/1898 Henderson & Edward Brown, Sunderland
07/1904 Broken up
Comments: William & John Bell were from the Washington Collieries company
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


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