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Name: AJAX
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 12/09/1862
Completed: 1862
Builder: Middle Dock Co
Yard: West Holborn, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 773nrt, 150.0 x 32.5 x 22.1ft; (by 1889: 807grt, 749nrt, 149.2 x 32.5 x 21.9ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship; (1878: rigged as a Barque)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 45150
History:
29/09/1862 Middle Dock Co; registered at Newcastle
26/09/1870 Thomas Ridley Oswald, Sunderland
03/04/1872 Alexander Cassels, Liverpool
1873 Tommesen & Son, Arendal
1905 Broken up
Comments: 29/09/1862: Owners registered as John Anthony Woods and Thomas Henderson
who were both partners in the Middle Dock Co
05/02/1873: British registration cancelled
About 1878: Re-rigged as a Barque
Broken up at Mandal in about 1905


Above photo is copyright of the Aust-Agder Museum

Above photo is copyright of the Aust-Agder Museum