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Name: ERA
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1845
Completed: 1845
Builder: Andrew McLeod
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 197nrt, 82.8 x 20.8 x 17.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
19/11/1845 John Ormston & James Dale, Newcastle and John Cuthbert Potts, Gateshead
11/04/1847 John Ormston & James Dale, Newcastle
14/04/1849 John Ormston, John Cuthbert Pott s & William John Van Hausbergen, Newcastle
20/03/1850 Abandoned
Comments: 19/03/1850: Grounded when leaving the Tyne & developed a bad leak
On a voyage from the Tyne to Rotterdam
20/03/1850: Abandoned in a sinking condition off the Tyne


North & South Shields Gazette, Friday, 29/03/1850