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Name: VISCOUNT MELBOURNE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 19/12/1835
Completed: 1835
Builder: James Edwards
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 670tonsb, 150.0 x 47 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1835 Marjribanks, London
05/01/1842 Wrecked
Comments: 05/01/1842: Wrecked on the Luconia Shoals, 62 miles north of Borneo
On a voyage from Singapore to Macao with a cargo of cotton, rice & saltpetre


Above image is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich

Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 26/12/1835

Caledonian Mercury, Thursday, 14/04/1842

Courtesy of Judith Sharpe