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Name: LYON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/02/1857
Completed: 05/1857
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 29
Dimensions: 435grt, 348nrt, 166.6 x 27.1 x 14.0ft; (1870: 604grt, 462nrt, 194.7 x 26.9 x 15.4ft)
Engines: 2cyl, 70hp; (1875: C2cyl (22 & 42 x 26ins), 70nhp)
Engines by: Morrison & Co, Newcastle; (1875: J Dickinson, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 18870
History:
16/05/1857 Nicholas Wood, Sunderland
1870 Lindsay Wood, Sunderland
by 1882 North Hetton Coal Co, Sunderland
No later history known
Comments: 1870:Lengthened by 28.1ft
1875: Engine compounded
1900: Register closed


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