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Name: FALCON
Launched: 1837
Completed: 1837
Builder: James Dowey, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 46grt, 13nrt, 66.6 x 13.2 x 6.6ft; (1857: 45grt, 8nrt, 69.4 x 14.8 x 7.0ft)
Engines: 1cyl, 24hp; (1857: 27hp)
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
24/02/1838 T Meadows, H Gelley, R Scott & J Wilkinson; registered at Newcastle
23/09/1839 T Meadows, H Gelley, R Scott & T Wraith, Newcastle
17/02/1846 J Winter, Heworth
18/04/1846 Thomas Meadows, North Shields
30/07/1846 T Meadows & R Miller, North Shields
13/08/1854 W Hammond, North Shields
09/12/1854 Michael Renwick, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
30/11/1857 W Thompson, H Brown, J Dickinson, J Jnr Tully & WB Tully, Sunderland
05/01/1859 Lost
Comments: 05/01/1859: Wrecked while entering the Wear in fog