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Name: CHOICE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1854
Completed: 1854
Builder: J & J Hair
Yard: St Peter's, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 358nrt, 109.0 x 23.5 x 16.9ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 4976
History:
10/08/1854 Peter & John Dale, North Shields
05/10/1855 Phillip Scott, Queenstown
185x Daley & Co, Queenstown; registered at Cork
22/07/1864 William Whittle & William Wilson, South Shields
31/01/1869 Wrecked
Comments: 31/01/1869: Wrecked on Praa Sands, Mounts Bay
On a voyage from Sulina to Falmouth with a cargo of maize