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Name: BEACONSFIELD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/07/1877
Completed: 09/1877
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 3
Dimensions: 1736grt, 1118nrt, 270.0 x 34.0 x 24.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 61 x 36ins), 160nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76646
History:
11/09/1877 George Cleugh, Newcastle; registered at North Shields
1888 John N Wilson, Newcastle
by 1904 John N Wilson, Tynemouth
07/04/1905 Wrecked
Comments: 07/04/1905: Wrecked north of Kvitholmen, Norway
On a voyage from Blyth to Trondheim with a cargo of coal


Photo courtesy of Richard Cox

The Newcastle Courant, Friday, September 14, 1877