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Name: SUSANNAH THRIFT
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 01/1865
Completed: 01/1865
Builder: Robert Fulton
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 219grt, 102.9 x 25.0 x 14.3ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig; (by 1875: Square rigged)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 49760
History:
28/01/1865 Robert Thrift, Blyth; registered at North Shields
1875 Mrs SA Thrift, Blyth
by 1877 JS Thrift & J Wigham, North Shields
1878 John Wigham, Morpeth
by 1887 William Higgs, Clapham
10/04/1888 Matthew Pearson, South Shields; registered at South Shields
30/04/1888 Matthew Pearson, South Shields & William Clarkson, Whitby
13/10/1899 Sank
Comments: 13/10/1899: Sank after a collision with LEOPOLD II off Dover
On a voyage from the Tyne towards Cowes with a cargo of coal
Also seen as built by A & R Hopper at Newcastle


Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 17/10/1899