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Name: EARL DOUGLAS
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/09/1850
Completed: 10/1850
Builder: Thomas Toward
Yard: St Peter's Quay, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 272grt, 194nrt, 140.6 x 20.5 x 12.6ft
Engines: 2cyl (32 & 32 x 26ins), 60nhp
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number:
History:
19/10/1850 J Ormston, WJV Haansbergen & JC Potts, Newcastle
28/11/1854 Wrecked
Comments: 28/11/1854: Wrecked on the Hinder Bank in a gale
On a voyage from Newcastle to Rotterdam carrying general cargo


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 28/09/1850

Newcastle Guardian, Saturday, 05/10/1850

Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 09/12/1854. Courtesy of Arie de Lange