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Name: BRUNETTE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/11/1861
Completed: 1862
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 107
Dimensions: 618grt, 481nrt, 178.4 x 28.0 x 16.3ft
Engines: 2cyl (36 & 36 x 27ins), 80hp; (1877: C2cyl (22.5 & 36 x 27ins), 80nhp)
Engines by: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow; (1877: Fawcett, Preston & Co, Liverpool)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 43984
History:
28/12/1861 General Iron Screw Collier Co, London
1872 Bremer, Bennett & Bremer, London
1879 Unknown owner, France
No later history known
Comments: 1877: Engine compounded by Fawcett, Preston & Co


Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 25/11/1861