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Name: CATHERINE GREENE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 08/1839
Completed: 1839
Builder: James Edwards
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 349nrt, 98.5 x 24.2 x 18.2ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 7273
History:
1839 Greene & Co, London
27/10/1853 Mr Smurthwaite, Sunderland
1861 B Thornton, Market Harborough
01/07/1863 Wrecked
Comments: Apparently she took about 20 months to build
01/07/1863: Wrecked on the North Reefs of Bermuda & sank
On a voyage from Cadiz to Baltimore with a cargo of salt
She had called into Bermuda for water & fresh provisions