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Name: LIZZIE LESLIE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 10/1866
Completed: 11/1866
Builder: Readhead, Softley & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 12
Dimensions: 370nrt, 125.7 x 26.0 x 16.3ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56470
History:
14/11/1866 James Turpie & Thomas Jefcoate Harbutt, North Shields
31/08/1871 Thomas Ridley Oswald, Sunderland
19/09/1871 John Palmer Bickell, Liverpool
14/10/1871 Unknown owner, Overseas
by 1873 JT de Garayalde, Porto Rico; renamed FAMILIA
1891 J Amiel y Mino, Havana; renamed JULIA DE AMIEL
28/02/1894 Condemned
Comments: Reputed to be the first ship to be classed as 100A1 with Lloyds Register
01/1894: Partially dismasted & bulwarks damaged in a storm
On a voyage from Havana towards Hamburg with a cargo of logwood
05/01/1894: Towed into Vigo by a steamship
28/02/1894: Condemned & sold


Above painting of LIZZIE LESLIE is by John Scott