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Name: CALLIOPE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1858
Completed: 1858
Builder:
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 214nrt, 96.9 x 24.9 x 14.7ft; (by 1860: 213nrt, 96.0 x 24.7 x 14.5ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 20261
History:
12/02/1858 Joseph Carr, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
20/01/1859 Joseph Carr, John Snowdon, James Farrage & George Hogg, Newcastle
10/06/1865 Joseph Carr, John Snowdon & George Hogg, Newcastle
31/01/1866 Thomas L Milburn & Robert Taylor, Blyth and William Milburn, Newcastle
08/02/1871 Wrecked
Comments: 08/02/1871: Ashore & wrecked at Seaford near Newhaven
On a voyage from Lisbon with a cargo of locust beans