Name: | AMAZON |
Type: | Tug |
Launched: | 1838 |
Completed: | 20/12/1838 |
Builder: | A Woodhouse |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 64grt, 18nrt, 69.2 x 14.5 x 8.4ft; (1858: 57grt, 8nrt, 71.5 x 15.7 x 8.3ft); |
(1859: 57grt, 57nrt, 71.5 x 16.1 x 8.3ft) | |
Engines: | 30nhp; (1858: 33nhp); (1859: None) |
Engines by: | |
Propulsion: | Paddle; (1859: Sail, rigged as a Sloop) |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
01/01/1839 | T Green & G Stewart, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
18/06/1841 | T Green & H Brown Jnr, Newcastle |
19/06/1841 | T Green, Newcastle |
18/03/1844 | James Turner, Hull; registered at Hull |
23/07/1855 | W Turgoose & W Hawksworth, Goole and G Blayden, London |
20/08/1857 | William Boutland, Bill Quay, Gateshead |
26/08/1857 | Registered at Newcastle |
06/10/1863 | Matthew Reay, Heworth, Gateshead |
04/1865 | Sank |
Comments: | 1859: Engine removed and converted into a sailing vessel |
04/1865: Lost 2 miles off the Tyne Bar |