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Name: MERCY
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1850
Completed: 01/1850
Builder: Robert Trotter & Thomas Young
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 137nrt, 75.0 x 19.8 x 11.2ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (Later: Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
29/01/1850 Matthew Robson, South Shields
08/10/1850 Matthew Robson and Ann & George Kyle, South Shields
27/10/1850 Wrecked
Comments: 27/10/1850: Wrecked on Salno Reef, NE of Faro, Gotland, Sweden
On a voyage from St Petersburg to London with a cargo of oats etc