Name: | MERCURY |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 1804 |
Completed: | 1804 |
Builder: | Simon Temple Jnr |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 326tonsb, 95.0 x 28.9 x ?ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship; (Later: Brig) |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
1804 | Simon Temple Jnr, South Shields |
18xx | Registered at London |
08/01/1846 | JO Scott, Willington and W Todd, J Sanderson & J Hunter, Jarrow; |
and WJ Gray, J Shield, J Turner & MS Dodds, Newcastle | |
23/04/1851 | William Todd, Matthew S Dodds, John Hunter & Robert Pearson |
22/09/1852 | Abandoned |
Comments: | 22/09/1852: Abandoned after springing a leak in the North Sea |
On a voyage from Newcastle to Copenhagen with a cargo of coal |