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Name: MELDON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1833
Completed: 08/1833
Builder: William Boutland
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 228nrt, 90.2 x 24.1 x 14.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 12872
History:
21/08/1833 John Clarke & Charles Dunn, Newcastle
19/03/1834 Charles Bertram & Ralph Wylam, Newcastle
10/06/1848 Elsdon Story & George Johnson, North Shields
03/12/1850 Elsdon Story, North Shields
22/04/1850 George Booth, Monkwearmouth
10/05/1851 Peter Webster, South Shields
12/02/1862 John Crouch, Sunderland
21/01/1863 Sank
Comments: Capacity of 335 tons of coal
21/01/1863: Foundered off the Texel
Some reports say she foundered midway between Aberdeen & Stavanger