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Name: BLACK BOY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/09/1854
Completed: 12/1854
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 23
Dimensions: 537grt, 433nrt, 164.0 x 26.5 x 15.7ft
Engines: 2cyl, 70hp; (1876: C2cyl (23 & 42 x 26ins), 70hp)
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle;
(1876: North-Eastern Marine & Engineering Co, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 30032
History:
23/12/1854 Nicholas Wood, Sunderland
by 1884 Executors of N Wood
1886 John Wood, London
1898 George Lindsay Jnr, Sunderland
by 1904 Hulked
Comments: 1876: Re-engined
By 1904: Hulked at the Shetland whaling station