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Name: PREMIER
Launched: 1878
Completed: 03/1878
Builder: John Softley & Sons, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 151grt, 37nrt, 115.2 x 19.6 x 10.2ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (30.5 x 58ins), 80nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76659
History:
25/03/1878 Robert Brotherick Avery, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1879 Charles A Dickinson, London
No later history known
Comments: 1887: Register closed as "lost off Oporto some years ago"
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Shields Daily News, Friday, 28/02/1879