Name: | EDWARD BILTON |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 08/1840 |
Completed: | 1840 |
Builder: | George Shotton |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 404nrt, 98.2 x 25.2 x 18.1ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 24448 |
History: | |
21/12/1840 | Edward Bilton, Ralph Park Philipson, Robert Robinson, Thomas Atkinson & |
Robert Hawthorn, Newcastle and Lawrence Herdman, Calcutta | |
01/11/1850 | Middle Dock Company, Newcastle |
04/12/1854 | Robert Pearson Jnr, South Shields |
08/11/1860 | Wrecked |
Comments: | A copper fastened Indiaman but used in her later years on the North Atlantic |
08/11/1860: Wrecked in a gale at Cambeltown, near West Cape, Prince Edward Island | |
On a voyage from Shediac to Europe with a cargo of deals |