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Name: WILBERFORCE
Launched:
Completed: 1846
Builder: Andrew Bell, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 67grt, 23nrt, 72.9 x 15.0 x 8.0 ft; (1860: 61grt, 12nrt, 76.2 x 16.8 x 9.0ft)
Engines: L1cyl, 38nhp; (1860: 40nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7700
History:
19/06/1846 Joseph Richardson; registered at Newcastle
1859 Edward Bannister & George Turner; registered at Grimsby
1866 John Sharrah, Hull
1871 Broken up
Comments:


The Hull Packet and East Riding Times, Friday, 29/04/1859