Name: | VESTA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 04/02/1837 |
Completed: | 1837 |
Builder: | A & R Hopper & Co |
Yard: | North Shore, Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 288grt, 161nrt, 131.0 x 19.2 x 9.0(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2cyl, 150hp |
Engines by: | Tod & McGregor, Glasgow |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
1837 | Newcastle Steam Navigation Co, Newcastle |
23/09/1850 | G Gray, Newcastle |
by 1851 | John Smith, Sunderland |
16/11/1851 | Sank |
Comments: | 16/11/1851: Foundered off the mouth of the Humber |
On a voyage from Sunderland to Hamburg |
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 13/05/1837
Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/11/1851