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