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Name: BALMORAL
Launched: 14/10/1871
Completed: 11/1871
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number: 283
Dimensions: 90grt, 10nrt, 88.0 x 17.5 x 9.0ft
Engines: L1cyl (33 x 50ins), 35nhp
Engines by: Thomas Hepple & Son
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 67295
History:
24/11/1871 William Brogg Leighton, Newcastle
1874 William Nicholson, Sunderland; registered at Swansea
by 1878 Thomas M Scott, Bishopwearmouth
1878 Registered at Sunderland
by 1880 William F Stevenson et al, Sunderland
1884 Thomas N Scott, Sunderland
1885 Robert Forster, Scotswood; registered at Newcastle
1891 W Stephenson & R Mould, North Shields
1894 Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle; registered at Newcastle
1896 Lambton Collieries Ltd, Newastle
1903 Thomas Hepple & Co Ltd
1903 Thomas Watson, North Shields
190X Thomas H Watson & George W Watson, North Shields
21/03/1910 Sank
Comments: 21/03/1910: Grounded on rocks off Cullercoats and sank in deep water


Sunderland Daily Echo, Wednesday, 23/03/1910