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Name: NORTH STAR
Launched:
Completed: 01/1861
Builder: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 53grt, 3nrt, 73.2 x 15.5 x 8.0ft
Engines: L1cyl (26 x 45ins), 22nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Landells, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 29108
History:
1861 Henry Carr, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
10/1872 Robert Lumley Cook & William Brown et al; registered at Sunderland
07/1878 F Downs et al, Sunderland
1879 James Kerr, Sunderland
No further history known
Comments: 30/01/1870: Damaged by fire and sank at mooring.
Subsequently raised & repaired.


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 04/02/1870