Name: | GLORIANA |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 15/04/1843 |
Completed: | 04/1843 |
Builder: | T & W Smith |
Yard: | St Peter's, Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 1051grt, 156.6 x 31.6 x 23.1ft; (1861: 939grt) |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 32282 |
History: | |
29/04/1843 | T & W Smith, Newcastle |
29/10/1850 | T & W Smith, Newcastle and H Toynbee, London |
18/01/1854 | T & W Smith, Newcastle; H Toynbee, London and William Smith, Benton |
13/06/1872 | Joseph Wilson, South Shields |
17/06/1872 | Joseph Wilson, Joseph Brunswick, Thomas Barker & George Ramsey, South Shields and |
Patrick O'Hare & Henry J Modlin, Newcastle | |
24/08/1873 | Abandoned |
Comments: | Initially used as an Indiaman but from 1864 used in the North Atlantic timber trade |
29/04/1856: Thomas Smith died | |
13/10/1860: William Smith died | |
24/08/1873: Abandoned, sinking, 200 miles ExS of Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
On a voyage from London to St John, New Brunswick |
Illustrated London News, Saturday, 29/04/1843
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