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Name: T E FORSTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/01/1866
Completed: 02/1866
Builder: T & W Smith, Limekilns Shore
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 30
Dimensions: 694grt, 536nrt, 198.3 x 28.4 x 15.8ft); (1873: 810grt, 522nrt, 218.4 x 28.3 x 16.0ft)
Engines: 2cyl; (1873: CI2cyl (25 & 49 x 30ins), 90nhp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1337; (1873: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1558)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 51386
History:
23/02/1866 James Southern & Co, Newcastle
1873 JO Scott, Newcastle
by 1904 Scott Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle
by 1907 Thomas Pallister & William S Blues, Newcastle
08/02/1907 Sank
Comments: 1873: Lengthened & deepened to 218.4 & 16.0ft
08/02/1907: Sank after a collision with JM SMITH off Gravesend
On a voyage from the Tyne to London with a cargo of coal
14/02/1907: Raised by Thames Conservancy lighters
24/07/1907: Towed by ABEILLE to Dunkirk for breaking up


Shields Daily News, Friday, 05/01/1866

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Thursday, 21/03/1907