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Name: HAWK PACKET
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1804
Completed: 1804
Builder: Edward Hawk
Yard: South Shore, Gateshead
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 173tonsb, 77.5 x 23.3 x ?ft; (1824: 204tonsb, 86.5 x 23.5 x ?ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner; (1807: Brigantine); (1824: Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
19/10/1804 John Hawk, Gateshead and Samuel W Parker & John Shields, Newcastle
24/01/1809 George & John Hawk et al, Gateshead
20/08/1818 Sir Robert Shafto Hawks et al, Newcastle
31/05/1824 Anthony Nichol, London & George Straker, South Shields et al
18/02/1836 Sank
Comments: 1824: Lengthened & re-rigged by Straker & Barras at South Shields
18/02/1836: Foundered in "the Deeps"during a storm
On a voyage from Seaham to London with a cargo of coal


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 12/03/1836