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Name: CUMBERLAND
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 1882
Completed: 09/1882
Builder: George Haxson
Yard: Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 97grt, 59nrt, 84.0 x 19.4 x 8.6ft
Engines: 2cyl (12 & 12 x 16ins), 25nhp
Engines by: M Pratt & Co, Huddersfield
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86083
History:
04/09/1882 James Coltman, Ouseburn; registered at Newcastle
03/07/1884 James Coltman, George Haxson & William Hindmarch, Newcastle
1895 James Coltman et al, Newcastle
05/01/1901 Thomas Wales, Newcastle
08/02/1905 Lost
Comments: 08/02/1905: Wrecked off Newton, Northumberland
On a voyage from Berwick to the Tyne with a cargo of burnt ore
George Haxson is given as living at Clifford St, Byker
Perhaps he was building in the Ouseburn area


The Berwick Advertiser, Friday, 10/02/1905