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Name: ECLIPSE
Type: Steam Packet
Launched: 1836
Completed: 18/04/1836
Builder: Andrew Woodhouse
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 92grt, 42nrt, 76.0 x 15.6 x 9.4ft; (1837: 104grt, 52nrt, 88.0 x 15.6 x 9.4ft)
Engines: 1cyl, 40hp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
25/04/1836 J Beckinton, J Thompson, TD Marshall, H Metcalf & T Reed; registered at Newcastle
01/01/1838 J Beckinton, TD Marshall, H Metcalf & T Reed, Newcastle
11/05/1839 J Beckinton, TD Marshall & H Metcalf, Newcastle
31/01/1849 WC Renton, Newport; registered at Newport
15/07/1852 R Osborne, Bristol
1856 Broken up
Comments: Built for the Newcastle to Hull passenger and goods service
Trading as the Shields & Newcastle General Steam Navigation Co, Shields
1837: Lengthened by the shipbuilder
04/02/1856: Register closed as "Vessel broken up at Bristol"


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 02/07/1836

Newcastle Courant, Friday, 06/04/1838