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Name: BULL DOG or BULLDOG
Type: Steam Barge
Launched 13/03/1866
Completed: 06/1866
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 42
Dimensions: 100grt, 76nrt, 160dwt, 99.6 x 20.1 x 7.1ft
Engines: 2 x 1cyl (12 x 15ins), 40nhp; (1921: 20nhp)
Engines by: J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 49779
History:
16/07/1866 Shields Steam Shipping Co, South Shields
1871 Jas Wood Sully, Bridgwater
1877 John G Sully, Bridgwater
by 1896 Sully & Co Ltd, Bridgwater
1929 Broken up
Comments: JW Sully was one of Bridgewater’s leading coal merchants
shipping coal on the canal between Taunton & Bridgewater
1921: Re-built by Stothert & Co Ltd, Bristol


Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury, Saturday, 17/03/1866