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Name: COMET
Launched: 09/07/1880
Completed: 10/1880
Builder: Wouldhave & Johnson, Low Lights, North Shields
Yard Number: 17
Dimensions: 54grt, 4nrt, 76.5 x 16.8 x 8.3ft (1882: 13nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (27 x 45ins), 25nhp
Engines By: RJ Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 81971
History:
27/10/1880 Robert John Marshall, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1882 Robert Penney, Shoreham & George Penney, Poole; registered at Shoreham
1890 Richard E Penney, Shoreham
1894 Woodman Hill, Gosport
11/1906 Broken up
Comments: 1882: Registered at Shoreham but based at Poole
Hulked at Weymouth for some years before demolition
11/1906: Broken up at Weymouth


Above: COMET at Poole. Photo courtesy of John Ward-McQuaid