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Name: MESSENGER
Launched: 1843
Completed: 12/1843
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 63grt, 19nrt, 70.0 x 14.6 x 8.3 ft; (1861: 55grt, 10nrt 71.5 x 15.7 x 8.3ft)
Engines: 1cyl (31 x 42ins), 28nhp; (1861: 25nhp)
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26135
History:
17/01/1844 John Dove, Robert Hindmarsh, Henry Mayors et al; registered at Newcastle
1845 J Dove Snr & Jnr, R Dove, R & H Hindmarsh, Newcastle
1858 John Doyle, Newcastle
1860 Robert Hindmarsh, Henry Mayors et al, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1862 John Gray, North Shields; registered at Shields
by 1870 George William Gray, Heworth
1877 William Purdy, North Shields
1880 Broken up
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