Name: | ACKLINGTON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 04/07/1872 |
Completed: | 1872 |
Builder: | Edward Lindsay |
Yard: | St Lawrence, Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 232grt, 139nrt, 130.1 x 20.8 x 10.3ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (17 & 31.5 x 20ins), 40nhp |
Engines by: | Pattison & Atkinson, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 67361 |
History: | |
1872 | Humble & Thompson, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
1874 | Jas Beckingham, Newcastle |
1875 | Frederick R Goddard, Newcastle |
1881 | Edward J Harley, Cardiff |
1882 | John W Dowson, Cardiff |
20/08/1887 | Sank |
Comments: | 20/08/1887: Holed on the Runnelstone Rock, near Land's End |
Foundered before she could be run ashore | |
On a voyage from Newport to Portland with a cargo of coal |
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 06/07/1872
The Star, Saturday, 20/08/1887