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Name: DESPATCH also seen as DISPATCH
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/07/1855
Completed: 10/1855
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 507grt, 370nrt, 190.4 x 25.1 x 14.6ft; (1865: 508grt, 365nrt);
(1869: 554grt, 407nrt, 217.4 x 25.1 x 14.6ft)
Engines: 2cyl, 120hp; (1868: CI2cyl (25 & 43 x 30ins), 90hp)
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; (1868: C & W Earle, Hull)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 25048
History:
08/11/1855 Dublin & Liverpool Steam Packet Co; registered at Dublin
by 1858 Registered at Dundalk
22/05/1862 Unknown owner; registered at Liverpool
29/09/1864 William Bailey & William Leetham, Hull; registered at Hull
02/03/1865 Unknown owner, Overseas; renamed ACOR
03/05/1865 William Bailey, Hull; registered at Hull; renamed DESPATCH
02/03/1866 William HH Hutchinson, Hull
19/03/1866 William HH Hutchinson & Charles F Earle, Hull
1873 John Bell, Ayr; registered at Glasgow
21/10/1888 Sank
Comments: 1868: Engine compounded
1869: Lengthened to 217.4ft
21/10/1888: Foundered off Rosetta, crew & passengers saved


North & South Shields Gazette, Friday, 20/07/1855