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Name: QUEEN
Launched:
Completed: 1840
Builder: Thomas Ellis, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 63grt, 25nrt, 67.4 x 14.7 x 8.0ft; (1856: 54grt, 6nrt, 68.7 x 16.2 x 7.7ft)
Engines: L1cyl, 28nhp; (1856: 25nhp)
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10060
History:
03/1840 Thomas Ellis & William Gourland, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
08/1840 Thomas C Gibson, Newcastle
1841 William Thompson, Sunderland
1842 William McAll, Leith
19/01/1844 Registered at Leith
29/08/1850 John Gillespie & Christina Hosie, Stirling; registered at Alloa
1856 Robert Davidson, Findhorn; registered at Inverness
1860 Thomas Keenan, Inverness
1862 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Belfast News-Letter, Friday, 28/09/1860