Name: | RICHARD & GEORGE |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 1852 |
Completed: | 07/1852 |
Builder: | Joseph Wrightson Wilkinson |
Yard: | Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 52nrt, 51.1 x 17.5 x 7.8ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Sloop |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 22623 |
History: | |
13/07/1852 | Richard Swan Bradford, Newcastle |
22/01/1866 | Richard Swan Bradford, Lancelot Stobbart Carr & Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle |
07/09/1867 | Lancelot Stobbart Carr & Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle |
21/01/1879 | Alexander Young Gardner, Newcastle |
23/11/1884 | William Lay, Monkwearmouth & John Holliday, Shiney Row |
21/08/1885 | William Lay, Monkwearmouth |
25/04/1887 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 25/06/1872: Lancelot Stobbart Carr died |
28/11/1878: Caught fire at South Shields & only saved by flooding | |
Subsequently raised and repaired | |
25/04/1887: Wrecked on Bellmans Head Rocks near Stonehaven harbour | |
On a voyage from Sunderland to Stonehaven with a cargo of coal |
Aberdeen Press & Journal, Tuesday, 26/04/1887