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Name: VESTA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/02/1837
Completed: 1837
Builder: A & R Hopper & Co
Yard: North Shore, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 288grt, 161nrt, 131.0 x 19.2 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2cyl, 150hp
Engines by: Tod & McGregor, Glasgow
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1837 Newcastle Steam Navigation Co, Newcastle
23/09/1850 G Gray, Newcastle
by 1851 John Smith, Sunderland
16/11/1851 Sank
Comments: 16/11/1851: Foundered off the mouth of the Humber
On a voyage from Sunderland to Hamburg


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 13/05/1837

Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/11/1851