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Name: RISING SUN
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1814
Completed: 10/1814
Builder: John Stephenson
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 101.1 x 26.5 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque; (originally: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
24/10/1814 John Foster, John Stevenson, Thomas Smith & John Dewar, Newcastle;
also Joshua Foster, Gateshead
06/10/1836 Lost
Comments: Originally built to smaller dimensions & rigged as a Snow
1830: Lengthened at St Peter's to above dimensions
06/10/1836: Lost in the St Lawrence River