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Name: ACKLINGTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/07/1872
Completed: 1872
Builder: Edward Lindsay
Yard: St Lawrence, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 232grt, 139nrt, 130.1 x 20.8 x 10.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 31.5 x 20ins), 40nhp
Engines by: Pattison & Atkinson, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 67361
History:
1872 Humble & Thompson, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1874 Jas Beckingham, Newcastle
1875 Frederick R Goddard, Newcastle
1881 Edward J Harley, Cardiff
1882 John W Dowson, Cardiff
20/08/1887 Sank
Comments: 20/08/1887: Holed on the Runnelstone Rock, near Land's End
Foundered before she could be run ashore
On a voyage from Newport to Portland with a cargo of coal


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 06/07/1872

The Star, Saturday, 20/08/1887