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Name: MARY & DOROTHY
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1840
Completed: 04/1840
Builder: Straker & Pearson
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 151nrt, 71.6 x 20.1 x 12.7ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (Later: Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2244
History:
13/04/1840 Charles Storer & John Spence, North Shields
07/03/1849 John Spence, North Shields
31/03/1860 Abandoned
Comments: Some sources say built by Thomas Ridley & Co at Howdon
31/03/1860: Abandoned after going onto her beam ends, 20 miles SE of the Newarp Light
On a voyage "coastwise". Crew saved by STELLA