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Name: WONDER
Launched: 1854
Completed: 1854
Builder: TD Marshall, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 55grt, 19nrt, 72.2 x 13.7 x 8.0ft; (1857: 46grt, 10nrt);
(1863: 47grt, 10nrt, 74.6 x 14.7 x 7.8ft)
Engines: 23nhp; (1864: 25nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26950
History:
15/02/1854 John Forster, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1857 Isabella Forster, Newcastle
1859 T Forster et al, Newcastle
1860 T Forster, Newcastle
1863 Richard Stobbs & William Dennison, North Shields; registered at Shields
1865 James Stoker, Shields
1867 John Appleby & Thomas Forrest, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1872 John Appleby, South Shields
1874 Michael Taylor and Michael Cook, Sunderland
1877 Thomas & Richad Hutchinson and John Jobling, Monkwearmouth
1878 Thomas Richardson & Joseph G Baines, South Shields
1881 Mary Ann Richardson & Joseph G Baines, South Shields
1882 Robert Moore, Shieldfield, Newcastle
1890 John Briggs, John Jackson & John Moore, Newcastle
1891 James P, John, Pattison & Joseph Ridley, Bill Quay
03/1903 Joseph Ridley, Bill Quay
10/1903 William Cross, Benwell, Newcastle
13/11/1905 Broken up
Comments: 13/11/1905: Register closed as sold to be broken up
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo taken off Sunderland in 1903 is courtesy of Sarah Stoner

Above photo is courtesy of Sarah Stoner