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Name: SEVERN
Launched: 1862
Completed: 1862
Builder: Stothert & Marten, Hotwells, Bristol
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 98grt, 39nrt, 85.6 x 17.4 x 9.2ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (28 x 54ins), 60nhp
Engines by: Stothert & Marten, Hotwells, Bristol
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 44257
History:
1862 Bristol Channel Steam Towing Co Ltd, Cardiff
20/07/1863 Registered at Cardiff
1866 Robert Bellhouse, Manchester; registered at Liverpool
1879 Martha Nicholson, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
by 1885 Thomas Pinkney, Sunderland
1892 William & Thomas Pinkney, Sunderland
1895 James Baird & John Barnsley, North Shields
No further history known
Comments: 1862: Launched for WH Martin, Cardiff
1862: Not registered at Cardiff
1899: Converted into a lighter for inland use. Register closed


Pictured in 1886 at the launch of the HERACLIDES in Sunderland. Photo courtesy of Eddie Frost