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Name: IRENE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1852
Completed: 03/1852
Builder: Joseph Wrightson Wilkinson
Yard: St Anthony's, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 187nrt, 83.4 x 21.2 x 13.7ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 24931
History:
06/03/1852 Thomas Watson, William Boutland Wilkinson & Joseph Wrightson Wilkinson, Newcastle
22/04/1858 George Calvert & John Hardcastle; registered at Whitby
04/12/1871 Lost
Comments: 04/12/1871: Lost on the Cross Sand, Thames Estuary
On a voyage from Shields to Caen with a cargo of coal


Newcastle Journal, Tuesday, 05/12/1871