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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