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Name: BUCEPHALUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 02/04/1840
Completed: 1840
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: St Peter's
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 881nrt, 155.6 x 34.3 x 23.2ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 12941
History:
08/05/1840 Thomas & William Smith, Newcastle
16/06/1840 Thomas & William Smith, Newcastle and William Fulcher, London
16/01/1854 William Smith, Newcastle & William Fulcher, London
08/11/1859 William & Thomas Eustace Smith, Newcastle
13/01/1860 Thomas Eustace Smith, Newcastle
26/08/1865 Thomas E Smith & George Luckley, Newcastle and James Southern, London
04/05/1871 John Hall Jnr & Richard William Cresswell, London
No later history known
Comments: Built for the East India trade
08/1871: Converted to a coal hulk at Gibraltar


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 04/04/1840