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Name: FORESTER
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1788
Completed: 1788
Builder: John Smith
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 134tonsb, 71.1 x 21.4 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (Later: Rigged as a Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
29/04/1788 John Smith, South Shields & William Plaskedd, Lindhurst, Hampshire
01/07/1806 John Smith, South Shields
1829 Registered at Scarborough
by 1834 William Robson, Stockton and James Wilkie & Gustavous A Collingwood, Bishopwearmouth
28/08/1834 William Gibbon, South Shields
14/05/1839 Charles Newby Wawn, South Shields
18/01/1840 Christopher Akenhead Wawn & Robert Henry Weightman, South Shields
29/11/1841 Wrecked
Comments: 29/11/1841: Wrecked on Scroby Sand, off Yarmouth