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Name: VOLTIGUER
Launched:
Completed: 1851
Builder: James Jackson, Middlesbrough
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 73grt, 27nrt, 76.0 x 15.6 x 8.0ft
Engines: L1cyl, 40nhp
Engines By: Richardson, Hartlepool
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3712
History:
4/1851 Benjamin H Huntley, Hartlepool
2/1855 Matthew Robson, South Shields; registered at Shields
6/1855 Joseph Shield & Willam Gray, Newcastle and David Renwick & George Harrison, Dublin
6/1855 Registered at Dublin
1857 E Mounsey & Co, Dublin
1858 Henry Cruse & William Downham, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool
1862 William Barratt & Nathaniel Caine, Liverpool
1865 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Liverpool Mercury, Monday, 07/07/1858