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Name: ALBION
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 14/07/1828
Completed: 1828
Builder: A & R Hopper
Yard: North Shore, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 178tonsb, 82.0 x 22.2 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (Later: Barque)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
11/04/1828 John Brighton & James Burrell, Newcastle and Robert Gordon, London
21/05/1833 Unknown owner, London
by 1850 Aubert & Co, London
05/04/1850 Sank
Comments: Specially built for trading between London & Leghorn
05/04/1850: Sank in the Straits of Gibraltar
On a voyage from Gibraltar to Cadiz


Tyne Mercury, Tuesday, 15/07/1828