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Name: WELCOME
Launched: 1847
Completed: 09/1847
Builder: Daniel Bider, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 54grt, 13nrt, 67.2 x 14.4 x 8.1ft
Engines: SL1cyl (30 x ?ins), 29nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26140
History:
01/10/1847 Edward Scott, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
1849 John & Thomas Scott, North Shields
01/09/1852 JB Scott; registered at Shields
1857 Edward Scott, South Shields
by 1867 Mary Reed, Tynemouth
1873 Thomas Scott, Hartlepool
1877 George Hill, Sunderland
by 1880 John Dunn, Newcastle
29/10/1880 George Legg Snr et al, South Shields
by 1888 George Legg, South Shields
No further history known
Comments: 29/10/1880: George Legg Snr et al paid £129
Register closed in 1906
Thanks to David Asprey for the above information