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Name: HECLA
Launched: 1859
Completed: 10/1859
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 66grt,17nrt, 82.5 x 16.9 x 8.0ft; (1871: 66grt,6nrt, 82.5 x 16.9 x 8.6ft)
Engines: 30nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 27701
History:
06/10/1859 Henry Jobes; registered at Shields
1862 David & John Renwick, Dublin; registered at Dublin
1863 John Renwick, Dublin
1868 John Boyce et al, Dublin
1869 Isaac Blake, Newport, Monmouthshire; registered at Newport
by 1878 A Thompson, Newport
1879 William W Thompson, Newport
1881 George D Freshfield, Newport
1882 John Hutchins, Newport
No later history known
Comments: Still listed in MNL 1885


South Wales Daily News, Friday, 18/071879