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Name: MARLBOROUGH
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 11/06/1846
Completed: 08/1846
Builder: Thomas & William Smith
Yard: St Peter's Dockyard
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 1402grt, 175.5 x 41.5 x 29.1ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 26350
History:
28/07/1846 Thomas & William Smith, Newcastle
26/08/1846 Smith & Co, Newcastle; registered at London
24/12/1869 Thomas Eustace Smith, Gosforth; James Southern, London & George Luckley, Newcastle
24/12/1869 Registered at Newcastle
24/03/1871 John Hall Jnr & Richard William Creswell, London
1888 Broken up
Comments: Pierced for 50 x guns, for Indian service
06/1871: Withdrawn from service & used as a coal hulk at Gibraltar
1888: Broken up at Gibraltar


Above painting of MARLBOROUGH is copyright of the National Maritime Museum

Newcastle Courant, Friday 12/06/1846