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Name: VESTAL
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1798
Completed: 08/1798
Builder: Robert Gothard
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 226tonsb, 84.2 x 25.3 x ?ft; (1804: 216tonsb, 84.3 x 25.3 x ?ft);
(1815: 301tonsb, 97.0 x 26.9 x ?ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship; (1804: Brigantine); (1815: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
15/05/1798 John Gray & William Richardson, Newcastle and Thomas Stamp Richmond, North Shields
03/06/1799 George Wakefield, North Shields
13/09/1811 William Richmond, North Shields; Thomas Stamp Richmond, Shadwell and
Jeremiah Abbs, Monkwearmouth
29/12/1813 James Hutchinson, Newcastle
09/02/1815 James Hutchinson, Newcastle & Edward Cockfield, South Shields
12/03/1818 Registered at London
02/02/1825 Emmanuel Taylor, North Shields
29/02/1848 Emmanuel & Robert Taylor, North Shields
1849 Lost
Comments: 1815: Lengthened & re-rigged by William Smith at Newcastle
1849: Lost at sea at about this date