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Name: AUGUSTUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1834
Completed: 05/1834
Builder: Straker & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 373tonsb, 109.3 x 27.6 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
29/05/1834 Thomas Brown & John Straker, Jarrow and George Walker, Newcastle
04/08/1834 John Usborne, Son & Co; registered at London
by 1844 Hagen & Son, London
28/11/1846 Capt Duff; registered at Adelaide
No later history known
Comments: 29/05/1834: These were the Co-Partners in Straker & Co
28/11/1846: Reportedly purchased for £4,200