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Name: PROOF
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 10/1836
Completed: 10/1836
Builder: William Reay
Yard: Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 76nrt, 55.2 x 17.7 x 9.5ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner-Ketch
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/10/1836 Matthew Popplewell, South Shields
11/06/1837 Sank
Comments: 11/06/1837: Sank after a collision with MENAI near Flamborough Head
On a voyage from Tyne to London with a cargo of coal