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Name: QUEEN OF THE SEAS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 18/08/1853
Completed: 08/1853
Builder: Luke Blumer Bushell
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 176tonsb, 88.7 x 20.5 x 12.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2043
History:
30/08/1853 William Hunter, South Shields
25/07/1855 George Watson, Sunderland
12/04/1861 Wrecked
Comments: 12/04/1861: Wrecked at Thisted, on the Agger Canal, west coast of Jutland
On a voyage from Sunderland to Stettin with a cargo of coal


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, August 26, 1853