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Name: WILLIAM & ANN or WILLIAM AND ANNE
Type: Sailing vessel
Launched: 1837
Completed: 10/1837
Builder: Thomas Metcalfe & Son
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 254tonsb, 80.9 x 23.6 x 15.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
16/10/1837 William Watson, South Shields
10/07/1850 William Watson, Hartlepool
25/01/1878 Sank
Comments: 10/07/1850: William Watson of South Shields had died
25/01/1878: Run down & sunk by TABOR in the Middle Swin
On a voyage from Seaham to London with a cargo of coal
4 of the crew died


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 28/01/1878