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Name: MERCURY
Type: Passenger Ferry
Launched: 1839
Completed: 1839
Builder: Andrew Bell
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 62grt, 32nrt, 91.9 x 13.4 x 6.7ft
Engines: 2 x 1cyl (21 x 36ins), 30hp
Engines by: White & Hodgson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1839 Unknown owner
28/05/1840 Port of Tyne Improved Steam Navigation Co; registered at Newcastle
20/08/1844 W Jobling, Newcastle
17/05/1845 AC Christie, Ferryport, Dundee
12/09/1848 Registered at Dundee
28/02/1850 JJ Smith, W Tassell & T Aylam; registered at Stockton
No later history known
Comments: 19/02/1856: Register closed - no details


Shipping & Mercantile Gazette, Saturday, 13/02/1841