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Name: WESTERN
Type: Passenger Cargo ship
Launched: 18/02/1861
Completed: 1861
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 85
Dimensions: 404grt, 246nrt, 183.4 x 23.0 x 12.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (12.5 & 24.5 x 27ins), 80nhp
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 48414
History:
1861 Australian Steam Navigation Co, Melbourne
02/1874 Charles J Stevens, Sydney; registered at Sydney
by 1894 CA Cambell & WR Gainford, Sydney
by 1904 Bernard Einerson, Sydney
by 1907 Daniel Sheehy, Sydney
by 1910 Richard Sheehy, Sydney
No later history known
Comments: 1861: In service between Melbourne and the Western districts of Victoria
1910: Hulked and register closed


North & South Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 21st February 1861