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Name: DURHAM
Type: Passenger Ferry
Launched: 1830
Completed: 1830
Builder: E Oliver
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 81grt, 21nrt, 67.4 x 15.8 x 8.1ft; (1864: 72grt, 21nrt, 70.0 x 27.8 x 8.3ft)
Engines: 30hp; (1864: 32hp)
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 4991
History:
1830 The Ferry Company
21/12/1850 John Tinley; registered at Shields
1858 North and South Shields Ferry Co, Shields
1863 Tyne Improvement Commissioners, North Shields
No later history known
Comments: Built with two hulls placed side by side and with a large central paddle wheel
1866: Replaced by a new ferry of the same name