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Name: NAVIGATOR
Type: Cargo Ship; (1840: Sailing Vessel)
Launched: 1821
Completed: 1821
Builder: T Skelton
Yard: Howdon Pans
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 24tonsb, 58.3 x 16.0 x 5.8ft; (1840: 54nrt, 55.3 x 15.0 x 7.8ft)
Engines: Steam; (1840: None)
Engines by: Unknown; (1840: n/a)
Propulsion: Paddle; (1840: Sail, rigged as a Schooner)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
1821 Unknown owner
16/07/1822 T Skelton, J Cook & G Turnbull, Newcastle
03/01/1826 T Skelton, J Cook & W Saunders, Newcastle
10/06/1828 J Cook and H Skelton, Newcastle
13/08/1830 J Jackson, J Cook and N Wayman, Sunderland
12/09/1832 J Jackson, J Cook, N Wayman and W Laws, Sunderland
09/06/1835 W Skinner Jr, J Procter and N Wayman, Stockton
25/03/1836 W Skinner Jr and N Wayman, Stockton
25/06/1836 George Welch, Thomas Cowper Potts & William Hamilton, Monkwearmouth and
William Henry Dixon, William Haw & John Bunker, Sunderland
01/02/1839 George Welch, Thomas Cowper Potts & William Hamilton, Monkwearmouth and
William Henry Dixon & John Bunker, Sunderland and Francis Appleby, Seaham
12/10/1840 William Boutland, Bill Quay
01/07/1843 Wrecked
Comments: May also have been used as a tug
1840: Rebuilt at Bill Quay by William Torrance & converted to sail only
01/07/1843: Wrecked on the Herd Sand, South Shields