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Name: DISPATCH
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1847
Completed: 1847
Builder: Joseph Wrightson Wilkinson
Yard: St Anthony's, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 145nrt, 81.9 x 20.0 x 12.2ft; (1866: 196nrt, 100.0 x 24.3 x 12.3ft);
(1883: 196grt, 172nrt, 102.5 x 24.1 x 12.5ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner; (1866: Brigantine); (1874: Barquentine)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 427
History:
1847 Unknown owner
27/02/1850 Registered at Wexford
by 1865 Richard Devereux, Wexford
by 1874 John Thomas Devereux, Wexford
by 1882 John Kearon, Dublin; registered at Dublin
by 1885 James Kingsberry, Belfast; registered at Belfast
1896 John Elliott, South Shield
1899 Donald McLeman, Avoch
by 1904 Harold Brown, Shoreham
by 1907 Arthur RT Perry, Brighton
No later history known
Comments: Also seen as DESPATCH
1866: Lengthened to 100.0ft
1914: UK register closed