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Name: WILLIAM
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1800
Completed: 09/1800
Builder: Thomas Walmsley
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 150tonsb, 72.9 x 22.5 x ?ft; (1805: 197tonsb, 86.4 x 23.1 x ?ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig; (1805: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
30/09/1800 William Mayors, South Shields
20/06/1836 William Gibson, South Shields
22/11/1840 Wrecked
Comments: 1805: Lengthened & re-rigged by Richard Bulmer & Co at South Shields
20/06/1836: Following the death of William Mayors
22/11/1840: Wrecked on the Sunk Sand in the Thames Estuary