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Name: AEOLUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1795
Completed: 10/1795
Builder: James Walmsley
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 169tonsb, 78.4 x 23.0 x ?ft; (1820: 175tonsb, 79.7 x 23.0 x ?ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (1820: Rigged as a Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3529
History:
23/10/1795 James Walmsley, North Shields
04/08/1796 John Foster, Stephen Atkinson, George Burton & William Spencer, Newcastle
26/05/1810 John Foster & Albert Airey, Newcastle and Robert Ward & William B Scott, London
29/02/1820 John Ridley, Joseph Spotswood & John Brighton, Newcastle
09/02/1829 George Barras, North Shields & James Pringle, Newcastle
01/03/1848 Thomas Holmes, North Shields; registered at Newcastle
03/04/1860 William Davison, North Shields
28/05/1860 Wrecked
Comments: 28/05/1860: Wrecked near Winterton, Norfolk
On a voyage from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coal