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Name: GENERAL CAULFIELD
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 02/07/1859
Completed: 08/1859
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 650grt, 591nrt, 154.5 x 30.5 x 19.5ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26879
History:
12/08/1859 Thomas & William Smith, Newcastle
17/11/1868 James Southern, London & George Luckley, Newcastle
12/01/1879 Wrecked
Comments: 12/01/1879: Wrecked on the bar of Courtmacsherry, 20 miles W of Cork
On a voyage from New York to Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat


Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 16/01/1879