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Name: REDWING
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1841
Completed: 04/1841
Builder: Straker & Love
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 237nrt, 83.0 x 22.3 x 15.5ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (by 1872: Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 22614
History:
17/04/1841 Joseph Straker, John Straker & Joseph Love, North Shields
07/12/1842 Unknown owner; registered at Dublin
13/01/1857 Unknown owner; registered at London
by 1865 George Woolfe, London
03/12/1872 Wrecked
Comments: Lloyd's Survey of 1840 names Elliott & Co as builders
03/12/1872: Wrecked at Sunderland
On a voyage from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coal


Shipping & Mercantile Gazette, Wednesday, 04/12/1872