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Name: WILLINGTON
Launched: 16/06/1856
Completed: 08/1856
Builder: Adamson & Sons, Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 75grt, 13nrt, 84.3 x 17.3 x 9.2ft
Engines: L1cyl (45 x 44ins), 40nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 15975
History:
05/08/1856 Wiliam Adamson, Willington Quay; Thomas Blaik Adamson, Newcastle and
Thomas Adamson, Alloa; registered at Newcastle
05/1857 John Hamnock Gill, Thomas Morris & Harold Wrayford Gill, Tavistock;
William Hicks, Plymouth and Theophilus Hoskins, Calstock;
t/a Devon & Cornwall Tamar Steam Packet Co, Calstock; registered at Plymouth
1864 Devon & Cornwall Tamar Steam Packet Co Ltd, Calstock
12/1882 James Watkins, London; registered at London
by 1887 John H Fox, Norton, Co Durham
1890 Broken up
Comments: Often erroneously referred to as the WELLINGTON
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above details courtesy of David Asprey