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