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Name: RICHARD & GEORGE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1852
Completed: 07/1852
Builder: Joseph Wrightson Wilkinson
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 52nrt, 51.1 x 17.5 x 7.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Sloop
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 22623
History:
13/07/1852 Richard Swan Bradford, Newcastle
22/01/1866 Richard Swan Bradford, Lancelot Stobbart Carr & Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle
07/09/1867 Lancelot Stobbart Carr & Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle
21/01/1879 Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle
23/11/1884 William Lay, Monkwearmouth & John Holliday, Shiney Row
21/08/1885 William Lay, Monkwearmouth
25/04/1887 Wrecked
Comments: 25/06/1872: Lancelot Stobbart Carr died
28/11/1878: Caught fire at South Shields & only saved by flooding
Subsequently raised and repaired
25/04/1887: Wrecked on Bellmans Head Rocks near Stonehaven harbour
On a voyage from Sunderland to Stonehaven with a cargo of coal


Aberdeen Press & Journal, Tuesday, 26/04/1887