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Name: ROBERT
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1836
Completed: 06/1836
Builder: Thomas Metcalfe & Sons
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 262grt, 84.7 x 22.7 x 16.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 33040
History:
20/06/1836 Thomas & George Metcalfe, South Shields and John Metcalfe, North Shields
10/08/1844 Thomas Metcalfe, West Boldon & George Metcalfe, South Shields
07/08/1847 John Tulley & George Metcalfe, Tynemouth
by 1867 John Tinley, Tynemouth; registered at Shields
No later history known
Comments: Still listed in MNL 1885
11/1855: Reported as wrecked on Tongue Sand near Margate
On a voyage from Cardiff to London with a cargo of coal
Must have been recovered or two ships of this name, place and year