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Name: QUEENS TOWN or QUEEN'S TOWN or QUEENSTOWN
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1849
Completed: 1849
Builder: James Edwards
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 310nrt, 94.8 x 26.5 x 16.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7281
History:
1849 James Edwards & Co, Shields
03/01/1850 Mr Mitcheson, London
03/06/1859 Thomas Shotton, Cramlington & James Marshall, Thomas Blenkinsop and
James Fenwick, Seaton Deleval & William Southern, South Shields
13/01/1865 Thomas White, South Shields
15/04/1867 John Davidson, Monkwearmouth; registered at Sunderland
1870 Thomas Anderson & Co, Sunderland
29/09/1871 Sank
Comments: 29/09/1871: Foundered approx 50 miles north of Bilbao
On a voyage from Fayal to Hamburg with a cargo of guano