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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