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Name: CANDIDATE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/12/1853
Completed: 04/1854
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 583grt, 423nrt, 191.9 x 25.3 x 15.2ft
Engines: 120hp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields (probably)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, also rigged as a 3 x masted Schooner
Construction: Iron
Reg Number:
History:
20/03/1854 Russell & Small (Frank S Thomas, manager), London
No later history known
Comments: Accommodation for 40 x 1st & 48 x 2nd Class passengers
Initially sailing between London & Hamburg


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 10/12/1853

Gateshead Observer, Saturday, 15/04/1854