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Name: CROYDON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 02/01/1862
Completed: 03/1862
Builder: W Marshall & Son
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 389nrt, 120.5 x 27.8 x 17.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 44016
History:
08/03/1862 Joseph Adams, Lower Shadwell; registered at London
by 1875 William Thomas, Swansea; registered at Swansea
1888 William Grove, Swansea
1894 Acties Croydon (T Berg), Stavanger
07/1897 Condemned
Comments: 07/1897: Put into Pernambuco, leaky, having been ashore. Subsequently condemned
On a voyage from Mossoro to Santos with with a cargo of salt


Above photo of CROYDON in the High Dock is copyright of JF Clarke