Name: | GUDRUN |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 10/07/1856 |
Completed: | 1856 |
Builder: | John Vernon |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 162nrt, 101.4 x 20.1 x 12.3ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Snow |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1860: 28862) |
History: | |
1856 | Hunter & Erichsen, Copenhagen |
13/08/1860 | F Powell & Co; registered at London; renamed QUEEN OF THE AVON |
by 1866 | HS Looke, London |
by 1869 | RH Forster, Liverpool |
by 1874 | William Liley, Liverpool |
by 1880 | Andrew Scott, Dundee; registered at Dundee |
14/08/1881 | Richard Swainson, South Shields; registered at Newcastle |
1889 | Tyne Wherry Co Ltd (Richard Swainson, manager), Newcastle |
1890 | Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd (Thomas Pragnell, manager), London |
1909 | British Petroleum Co Ltd (Richard Airey, manager), London |
1914 | British Government, London |
1914 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1889: Converted to an oil storage hulk and based on the Tyne |
1914: Company title and assets seized by the British Government |
Newcastle Courant, Friday, 11/07/1856