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Name: BLENHEIM
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 18/07/1848
Completed: 1848
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: St Peter's
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 1314grt, 175.5 x 37.7 x 29.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 23278
History:
1848 T & W Smith; registered at Newcastle
1848 Registered at London
1868 Government of India
No further history known
Comments: Armed as an East Indiaman
1867: Dismasted in a cyclone on passage from Madras to Calcutta
1868: Deemed uneconomic to repair, so sold as a hulk
Subsequently used as a coal hulk in the Nicobar Islands


Artist Thomas Goldsworth Dutton. Copyright National Maritime Museum

The Newcastle Courant, Friday, July 21, 1848