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Name: SYLVANUS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1817
Completed: 04/1817
Builder: Thomas Forsyth
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 157tonsb, 76.6 x 22.0 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (Later: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
26/04/1817 George Marshall, Thomas Ball, Thomas Forsyth, John Marshall and
Errington Bell, Thomas Forrest & William Marshall, South Shields
27/06/1832 John Green & Robert Storey, South Shields
21/06/1850 Wrecked
Comments: 21/06/1850: Wrecked off Flamborough Head
On a voyage from Shields with a cargo of coal