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Name: BLOSSOM
Launched: 1838
Completed: 09/1838
Builder: Stephenson & Co, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 33grt, 8nrt, 57.0 x 11.8 x 6.9ft; (1860: 31grt, 5nrt, 59.6 x 13.0 x 6.7ft)
Engines: 1cyl (21.25 x ?ins), 12nhp; (1857: 14nhp); (1860: 15nhp)
Engines by: Thomas Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 16153
History:
18/09/1838 Thomas Dawson, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
1855 William & R Hall, Newcastle
1859 Henry Rowell et al, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1865 James Elliott et al, Sunderland
1868 Robert Timm, Sunderland
No later history known
Comments: 21/12/1857: Towed WILLIAM CLOWES into Sunderland after a collision with BRITON