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Name: WONDER
Launched: 1857
Completed: 06/1857
Builder: TD Marshall, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 127grt, 23nrt, 112.6 x 18.0 x 10.0ft; (1865: 112.6 x 18.9 x 10.2ft); (1887: 132grt 39nrt)
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (30 x 48ins), 60nhp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 18471
History:
13/06/1857 Joseph Shield, William Gray & George Harrison, Dublin and Arthur Alexander, Belfast
13/06/1857 Registered at Belfast
1858 Robert Alexander et al, Belfast
1862 Hugh Andrews et al, Belfast
1864 Thomas Smith et al; registered at Liverpool
1865 Thomas Smith, Liverpool
1867 RB Woodburn, Liverpool
1868 Thomas Shaw, Birkenhead plus others
1871 William Handley, Tranmere Park
1872 Thomas Shaw, Birkenhead
1877 Abraham Buchanan, Liverpool
1882 Sylvester Mattinson, Liverpool
1883 William W Bird Jr, St Sampson's, Guernsey
1886 Unknown owner, France; renamed VIGILANT
03/1887 Abraham J Bird & M Dupuy, St Brieuc, France and
William W Bird Sr, St Peter's Port, Guernsey; registered at Jersey; renamed WONDER
23/04/1888 Sank
Comments: 1886: Sold by the Mortgagees
02/11/1887: Engine disabled & struck the east pierhead when entering Ramsgate harbour
in a storm (returning to Jersey after reboilering in London) and damaged starboard quarter
23/04/1888: Began leaking while anchored in fog 7nm SWxS of Corbiere Point, Jersey
She was abandoned and then she foundered. All 7 crew and 3 passengers saved
On a voyage from St Brieuc to Jersey with a cargo of hay, straw and oats
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


The Belfast News-Letter, Thursday, 11/06/1857