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Name: DON
Launched: 1841
Completed: 06/1841
Builder: J Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 65grt, 20nrt, 72.2 x 14.9 x 8.4ft; (1854: 67grt, 21nrt); (1863: 56grt, 17nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 16hp; (1857: 30nhp)
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 4279
History:
15/06/1841 Mark Melville, William Milburn & John Newton, North Shields
1848 Governor & Company of Copper Mines, Swansea
09/06/1852 Henry M Sheldon, Gloucester; registered at Gloucester
01/03/1854 William Hughes Jr, Limehouse; registered at London
1855 William Watkins, London
1866 Broken up
Comments: Builder recorded as J Bider, should this be Daniel Bider
1862: Placed in lay-up until final demolition
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details