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Name: CHESAPEAKE
Launched:
Completed: 1853
Builder: Robert & Richard Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 19nrt, 72.0 x 14.0 x 8.1ft; (1856: 64grt, 40nrt, 74.8 x 15.2 x 8.2ft)
Engines: L1cyl, 25nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10170
History:
12/1853 David B Pearson, North Shields; registered at Shields
06/1856 Joseph Gee, Hull; registered at Hull
1860 Samuel J Fill & Thomas Pain, Great Yarmouth; registered at Yarmouth
1861 James Swallow, Hull; registered at Hull
1861 John Rogerson, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1862 The Tyne General Ferry Co, Newcastle
1863 George Wraith
1863 John Rogerson, Newcastle
1864 Heald Mathurin & Co
1865 Sold to unknown Italian owner at Constantinople
1876 British register finally closed
No further history known
Comments: See details of the intrigue surrounding her trip to the Danube with
LOUISE CRAWSHAY in the section for the shipbuilder John Rogerson