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Name: MARY AGNES
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1836
Completed: 07/1836
Builder: William Torrance
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 214nrt, 81.3 x 21.8 x 14.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
18/07/1836 John Ridley Jnr, Newcastle
25/07/1839 Matthew Popplewell, North Shields
31/07/1839 William Humble, North Shields
27/08/1839 William Humble & Matthew Popplewell, North Shields
28/07/1846 William Burton, North Shields
28/12/1852 Abandoned
Comments: Some sources say built by Hood & Henderson at Bill Quay
Capacity of 329 tons of coal
25/12/1852: A heavy sea carried away the bulwarks & filled the cabin with water
One day out from the Tyne for London with a cargo of coal
28/12/1852: Crew abandoned ship into a passing sailing vessel