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Name: BERNARD
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 06/1837
Completed: 06/1837
Builder: William Torrance
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 299tonsb, 86.5 x 24.3 x 16.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
14/06/1837 John Abbot, Gateshead and Andrew McLeod & Thomas Hood Henderson, Newcastle
21/05/1851 Sank
Comments: Some sources state built by Hood & Henderson at Bill Quay
1848: Over-wintered at St Petersburg after being trapped by ice
21/05/1851: Foundered in the North Sea. Crew saved
On a voyage from Newcastle to Hamburg with a cargo of coal