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Name: BRITANNIA
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1814
Completed: 02/1814
Builder: George Huntley
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 241tonsb, 88.2 x 25.5 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/02/1814 Edward Wright, Newcastle
14/08/1816 T Hutchison & J Vickerson, North Shields and R & R Brown, London
03/12/1821 Joseph French, Tynemouth and John Robson, Newcastle et al
20/01/1831 Robert Widdrington Robson and John Twizell, North Shields
1835 John Twizell, North Shields
17/05/1851 William Orton Bradley and Taylor Potts, Sunderland
06/1852 George Peverall and Zachariah Granger, Sunderland
15/11/1852 Wrecked
Comments: 15/11/1852: Wrecked at Skinner's Pond, north cape of Prince Edward Island
On a voyage from Miramichi to Sunderland with a cargo of timber