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Name: SAGITTARIUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1846
Completed: 08/1846
Builder: Thomas Young & Son
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 356nrt, 107.2 x 23.6 x 17.7ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2168
History:
04/08/1846 Thomas & Mary Young and Robert Taylor, North Shields
01/11/1846 Mary Young and Robert Taylor, North Shields
14/02/1848 Mary & Cuthbert George Young and Robert Taylor, North Shields
22/11/1861 William Johnson & George Paul, North Shields
14/05/1866 William Johnson, North Shields
14/05/1866 William Johnson & Thomas Clark, North Shields and Christopher Heslop &
George Rowell, Newcastle
16/05/1867 William Johnson, North Shields
18/05/1867 Samuel Peter Austin Jnr, Sunderland
18/05/1867 John Snowdon, North Shields
01/05/1868 William White Jnr, Newcastle
12/03/1869 Missing
Comments: 01/11/1846: Following the death of Thomas, his share transferred to his widow Mary
12/03/1869: Left the Tyne for Savona
Subsequently posted missing