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Name: PROVIDENCE
Type: Sailing vessel
Launched: 1790
Completed: 04/1790
Builder: John Wallis
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 293tonsb, 95.0 x 27.6 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship; (1803: Rigged as a Snow)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2234
History:
17/04/1790 John Hutchinson, South Shields & Philip Kirton, Newcastle
12/03/1824 John Hutchinson, North Shields
01/09/1846 John Rodolphus Reichenberg, North Shields
12/01/1852 Mary Hutchinson, North Shields
09/03/1855 John Wright, North Shields
24/01/1860 Anthony Strong, North Shields
18/12/1865 Thomas Tillock & Henry Fox, South Shields
13/02/1869 Wrecked
Comments: 09/03/1855: Sold for £1,200
13/02/1869: Wrecked on Corton Sands, near Great Yarmouth
31/03/1870: Register closed as "condemned & broken up at North Shields"
Indicates that she was re-floated & brought back to the Tyne