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Name: SCEPTRE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1804
Completed: 06/1804
Builder: William Carrs
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 245tonsb, 85.5 x 26.2 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
02/06/1804 William Carrs, Newcastle
05/11/1804 Thomas Smith, Newcastle
18/04/1815 Thomas Smith, Newcastle and George Townshend Fox & Thomas Robertson, South Shields
1830 Registered at London
by 1834 Conrad Haverkam Greenbow, London
28/01/1834 Henry Wheatley, South Shields; registered at Newcastle
24/09/1852 Wrecked
Comments: Carrs is sometimes spelt as Cars and Carss
24/09/1852: Wrecked off Split Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
On a voyage from Port Wallace towards Berwick