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Name: GALATEA
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1797
Completed: 11/1797
Builder: Simon Temple Jnr
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 131tonsb, 69.1 x 21.2 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 13609
History:
21/11/1797 John Cheesment, Sunderland
23/02/1801 John Rawling, Bishopwearmouth
06/12/1808 Robert Gibbon, Monkwearmouth
24/05/1810 William Smith, South Shields
10/09/1810 John Ness & John Ness Jnr, South Shields
03/01/1824 George, Thomas & Philip Young, North Shields
15/12/1835 Thomas & Philip Young, North Shields
25/09/1852 John Alexander, Guernsey
11/03/1854 Registered at Shoreham
by 1861 John Crouch, Shoreham
22/10/1861 Foundered
Comments: 22/10/1861: Foundered off Spurn
On a voyage to Lowestoft