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Name: QUEEN VICTORIA
Launched:
Completed: 1837
Builder: James Dowey, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 51grt, 15nrt, 65.2 x 14.0 x 7.5 ft; (1858: 48grt, 7nrt, 67.0 x 15.6 x 7.8ft)
Engines: 20nhp; (1857: 28nhp); (1858: 25nhp)
Engines By: HS Waite, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10163
History:
1837 Unregistered
08/06/1838 Mary Strong, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
23/05/1849 William Thorp, South Shields; registered at Shields
1858 William Nelson, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1861 Edward Trotter & William Whitfield, Gateshead
1862 Edward Clarkson, Friar's Goose & Thomas Watson, Newcastle
02/08/1866 Sank
Comments: 1861: Engine removed & converted to an open boat
02/08/1866: Lost off Tynemouth Bar
Thanks to David Asprey & Ian Buxton for the above details


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 16/06/1854