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Name: SALLY GALE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 13/03/1850
Completed: 04/1850
Builder: Coutts & Parkinson
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 193tonsb, 80.5 x 20.8 x 13.1ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brigantine
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 3640
History:
22/04/1850 John Cross Brooks, Wallsend
24/02/1851 John Cross Brooks, Wallsend, Robert Richardson Dees, Newcastle &
James Finlay, Bristol
03/07/1857 Wrecked
Comments: Possibly the first ship built by the Coutts & Parkinson partnership
Built specifically for the "Rouen trade"
04/07/1857: Stranded near Quilleboeuf & then sank in quicksand
On a voyage from Shields to Rouen with a cargo of Coal