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Name: GEORGE SMITH
Type: Fishing Boat
Launched: 1885
Completed: 02/1886
Builder: Lancelot Liddle
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 90grt, 14nrt, 88.5 x 18.8 x 9.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (14.5 & 27 x 20ins), 32nhp
Engines by: RB Findley & Son, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 89814
History:
12/02/1886 George Smith, William Findley, Andrew Robertson, North Shields
18/01/1887 Wrecked
Comments: 18/01/1887: Wrecked in Wick Bay after dragging an anchor


Shields Daily News, Friday, 21/01/1887