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Name: MELROSE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 11/1837
Completed: 12/1837
Builder: William Reay
Yard: Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 288nrt, 85.6 x 23.7 x 17.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/12/1837 Charles Bertram & William Spencer, Newcastle and Thomas Parkinson, Bishop Auckland
11/11/1840 Wrecked
Comments: 11/11/1840: Wrecked on an uncharted reef SW of Malanta in the Soloman Islands
On a voyage from Sydney NSW to Guam