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Name: MALLARD
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 20/07/1852
Completed: 08/1852
Builder: Thomas & William Smith
Yard: St Peter's, Newcatle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 479tonsb, 120.0 x 25.2 x 19.0ft; (by 1863: 455nrt, 142.0 x 28.6 x 19.0ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 13689
History:
11/08/1852 Thomas & William Smith, Newcastle
18/01/1854 William Smith, Newcastle
11/08/1857 R Drouhet, Le Havre; renamed ALICE DROUHET
No later history known
Comments: 02/08/1860: The first vessel to use the Simon's Town patent slipway, South Africa
Some sources record this event as 22/08/1860