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Name: FIDELITY
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched:
Completed: 1778
Builder:
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 238tonsb, 80.6 x 26.3 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (later: Rigged as a Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1778 Unknown owner
21/09/1786 William Curry & Execs of Margaret Pearson, North Shields and Edward Hall, Whitley
09/06/1800 Frances & William Sommerville Curry and William Linskill, North Shields
21/05/1811 Execs of WS Curry & Timothy Curtiss, London and William Linskill, Tynemouth
10/03/1825 John Fenwick, North Shields
29/03/1830 John Fenwick & Andrew English, North Shields
07/02/1834 John Fenwick, North Shields
10/05/1834 Wrecked
Comments: 10/05/1834: Wrecked near Sydney, Cape Breton
On a voyage from Dublin towards Quebec carry immigrants
Her crew and the immigants were saved