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Name: NEWCASTLE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/12/1861
Completed: 1862
Builder: Marshall Bros
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 226grt, 169nrt, 125.1 x 20.5 x 11.5ft; (1868: 283grt, 211nrt, 151.4 x 20.9 x 11.1ft)
Engines: I2cyl (27 & 27 x 24ins), 45nhp; (1884: T3cyl (13, 21 x 40 x 24ins), 74nhp
Engines by: Marshall Bros, South Shields; (1884: E Wales, Hull)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 43636
History:
1862 Thomas Fotherby Bell, Hull; registered at South Shields
1869 Registered at Hull
1881 Alfred F Bell, Hull
1884 William HH Hutchinson, Hull; renamed SWALLOW
03/1889 D & W Taylor, Dundee
24/05/1890 Sank
Comments: 1862: Built for the Newcastle to Hull service
1868: Lengthened to 151.4ft
1884: Re-engined
03/1889: Purchased for £3,250 & repaired for £250
24/05/1890: Foundered 46 miles east of Coquet Island, Northumberland
On a voyage from Clackmannan to Hamburg with a cargo of coal