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Name: DOLPHIN
Launched: 1837
Completed: 03/1837
Builder: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 61grt, 18nrt, 68.3 x 14.5 x 8.2ft; (1861: 71.1 x 16.4 x 8.1ft)
Engines: 30hp; (1861: 2cyl, 36hp)
Engines by: HS Waite, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 21572
History:
21/03/1837 Exeter Steam Navigation Co; registered at Exeter
05/11/1838 S Kingdon, T Snow & JG Bidwell, Exeter
19/08/1841 S Kingdon, T Snow & HC Splatt, Exeter
10/11/1847 SL Bensusan, London; registered at London
26/01/1848 James Colling, London
08/01/1850 WB Cauldfield (t/a Lloyd's Steam Towing Co), London
11/03/1859 WB Cauldfield & RD Ross, London
18/12/1860 RD Ross, London
12/05/1863 WT Bridges, EP Hardcastle & GH Ross, London and T Brownfield, Gravesend
27/04/1867 GH Ross & I Bissell, London and T Brownfield, Gravesend
06/05/1867 GH Ross & I Bissell, London
1872 Broken up
Comments: 1840: New boilers by Harvey & Co, Hayle
1861: Rebuilt and re-engined
29/02/1872: Register closed as "Broken up"


Plymouth & Cornish Advertiser, Thursday, 27/10/1842