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Name: WOODBURN
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 10/06/1865
Completed: 10/1865
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 65
Dimensions: 107grt, 107nrt, 91.0 x 20.2 x 8.5ft; (1882: 143grt, 97nrt, 93.7 x 20.1 x 8.5ft)
Engines: None; (1882: C2cyl (10 & 18 x 15ins), 18nhp)
Engines by: n/a; (1882: Pearce Brothers, Dundee)
Propulsion: Sail; rigged as a Barquentine; (1882: 1 x Screw)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 52873
History:
23/10/1865 Donald Robert MacGregor & Co; registered at Leith
1869 Alexander Dunsmure, Leith
by 1875 Donald Robert MacGregor & Co, Leith
1877 John Jordan, Leith
1882 Anderson, Anderson & Co, London; registered at London
No later history known
Comments: 1822: Converted into a steam barge & rigged as a Dandy
Used as a drogher (sic) in the West Indies
03/1896: Sold at auction in Montego Bay. Engine removed & hull abandoned
25/03/1898: Register closed