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Name: VESTA
Launched: 1847
Completed: 1847
Builder: Daniel Bider, East Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 36grt, 10nrt, 58.2 x 12.8 x 7.0ft; (1856: 32grt, 7nrt);
(1871: 60.9 x 14.0 x 7.0ft)
Engines: SL1cyl (23 x 40ins), 20nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2492
History:
1847 David Laws, North Shields
1848 David Sams, North Shields
1853 Edward Brown, Monkwearmouth; registered at Sunderland
30/10/1856 Registered at Sunderland
01/03/1871 Thomas Gray, George Ford & William Tulley, Hull
1875 Fairley Downs et al, Sunderland
1876 Ralph Hurdman, Sunderland
1877 John Wallace Taylor et al, Sunderland
1879 Charles Ecclestone et al, Newcastle
1881 Registered at Newcastle
1882 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details