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Name: WILLIAM BURTON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1831
Completed: 08/1831
Builder: Charles Smith & Sons
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 217tonsb, 83.1 x 24.7 x ?ft; (1852: 295nrt, 95.5 x 22.4 x 15.8ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
16/08/1831 William Pearson, Newcastle
12/03/1852 George Wilson Morrison & George Fawcus, North Shields
24/08/1852 Robert Morrison Jnr, North Shields
12/1852 Missing
Comments: 11/01/1852: Broke from her moorings at Clifford Fort, North Shields,
as a result of strong tide combined with a SE gale
Driven onto Dortwick Sand and broke her back
06/1852: Lengthened by George Wilson Morrison at North Shields


North & South Shields Gazette, Friday, 30/07/1852