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Name: NORTHUMBRIA
Type: Yacht
Launched: 31/05/1866
Completed: 1866
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 145
Dimensions: 259grt, 153nrt, 145.1 x 25.3 x 12.9ft; (1897: 263grt, 115nrt)
Engines: 2cyl, 70hp; (1879: C2cyl (22 &44 x 26ins), 80nhp)
Engines by: R Stephenson, Newcastle; (1879: Day, Summers & Co, Southampton)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56052
History:
1866 George Robert Stephenson, Newcastle
by 1878 Earl of Lonsdale, London
1882 Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey
1895 George H Marvin, West Cowes, IoW
1896 G Kynoch & Co Ltd, Birmingham
1897 Kynoch Ltd, Birmingham; registered at Dublin; renamed KYNOCH
1900 Garston Steam Ship Co Ltd (EW Turner, manager); registered at Liverpool
11/05/1902 Wrecked
Comments: 1879: Re-engined
1897: Converted to a cargo ship
11/05/1902: Stranded on the Hat & Barrels reef in fog & became a total loss


Newcastle Guardian & Tyne Mercury, Saturday, 28th July 1866