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Name: HOTSPUR
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 13/03/1865
Completed: 04/1865
Builder: Thomas Metcalfe & Sons
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 523grt, 143.2 x 29.6 x 18.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 49764
History:
03/04/1865 John Dryden, North Shields
19/04/1873 Matthew Isaac Wilson, Liverpool
18/02/1874 John, Thomas, William & George Workman, Belfast; registered at North Shields
14/05/1875 Registered at Belfast
by 1879 Thomas Workman, Belfast
1882 Alfred G Morris, Hong Kong; registered at Hong Kong
20/10/1882 Sank
Comments: 14/03/1865: Shields Gazette reports the price as £7,000
20/10/1882: Lost