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Name: HEATHER BELL
Launched:
Completed: 10/1857
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 82grt, 16nrt, 88.0 x 17.9 x 9.6ft
Engines: 40nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 20339
History:
11/1857 John Newton & Richard Taylor, Aberdeen and Robert Newton, Derwenthaugh;
11/1857 Registered at Aberdeen
1871 Richard Taylor, Aberdeen
1882 Mrs Helen Taylor, John Nicol Newton et al, Aberdeen
1889 William Dawson Elliott, Hull
1892 Arthur Dales Todd, Hull
1894 Arthur D Todd & Reuben Wilkinson, Hull
1896 Reuben Wilkinson, Hull
1898 Broken up
Comments: 01/1899: Register closed
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


HEATHER BELL at a dock opening at Aberdeen on the 8th July 1885. Photo courtesy of T Norman Tait

With the 1852, Thames built, TRUE BRITON. Photo copyright Mike Taylor

The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday, March 28, 1860