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Name: WILLIAM BARKER
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1836
Completed: 10/1836
Builder: A & R Hopper
Yard: North Shore, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57tonsb, 51.8 x 16.1 x 8.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Sloop
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3116
History:
01/10/1836 J & P Ormston, J Lynn & A Shiell, Newcatle and C Marten, Stockton
21/04/1853 William Robson Lunn, Newcastle and Adam Lunn, London
20/01/1861 Joseph Cook, Sandsend; registered at Whitby
20/02/1868 Wrecked
Comments: 20/02/1868: Wrecked whilst entering Whitby harbour


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 24/02/1868