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Name: MARS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1808
Completed: 07/1808
Builder: Richard Bulmer & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 325tonsb, 97.1 x 28.1 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a; (1837: 33004)
History:
15/07/1808 William Harle, Robert Gothard & Taylor Winship, Newcastle and
Henry Wright & James Craster, South Shields
12/12/1816 William Harle & Taylor Winship, Newcastle and James Craster, South Shields
17/02/1818 Robert & Francis Jefferson, John Eden, South Shields and William Linskill,
John Walker Jnr, William Chapman, James Bovine & William Belleny, North Shields
17/02/1826 Robert & Francis Jefferson, John Eden and Robert Holmes, South Shields and
Robert Belleny, Durham
by 1837 George Crawford and David & James Binnie, Montrose
by 1837 Registered at Montrose
1856 Lost
Comments: Capacity of 22 x keels of coal or 430 x loads of timber
08/1836: Aground on Dunscanby Head but towed off by two steamers from Shields
On a voyage from Dalhousie, New Brunswick to UK East Coast
17/09/1836: Tow ropes cast off near Kinnairds Head due to a gale
18/09/1836: Taken in tow by some Fraserburgh pilots
Wrecked at the entrance to Fraserburgh harbour
Wreck subsequently purchased by Montrose merchants Crawford & Binnie
24/09/1856: Certficate of loss received at Registry