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Name: NEPTUNE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/1837
Completed: 23/09/1837
Builder: T Metcalf
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 174grt, 70nrt, 128.6 x 18.2 x 12.5ft; (1861: 240grt, 158nrt, 133.0 x 19.2 x 12.5ft)
Engines: 2cyl, 100hp; (1861: 90hp)
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 5356
History:
03/10/1837 J Beckington & H Metcalf et al, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
10/02/1844 J Beckington, H Metcalf & TD Marshall, Newcastle
02/02/1850 J Beckington & H Metcalf, Newcastle
03/06/1853 J Beckington, Newcastle & TF Bell, Hull
29/05/1861 TF Bell, Hull; registered at Hull
1862 Broken up
Comments: 1837: Trading as The Shields & Newcastle General Steam Navigation Co
For service between Newcastle & Leith and Newcastle & Hull
18/09/1862: Register closed as "Broken up"


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 14/10/1837