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Name: MEMNON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1825
Completed: 1825
Builder:
Yard: South Shore, Gateshead
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 245tonsb, 86.2 x 25.9 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3417
History:
1825 Unknown owner
05/05/1840 Adam Hutton, John Jameson & Thomas Colbeck, Newcastle
01/04/1843 Christopher Akinhead Wawn, South Shields
22/02/1844 Thomas Durham Usher, South Shields
08/01/1851 Registered at Shields
09/02/1861 Wrecked
Comments: 09/02/1861: Wrecked on Whitby Beach & broke up
On a voyage "coastwise" with a cargo of coal