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Name: SARAH FLEMING
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1833
Completed: 01/1833
Builder: Edward Robson
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 237tonsb, 88.5 x 16.9 x ?ft; (1836: 346tonsb, 98.2 x 24.1 x 16.8ft)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 25448
History:
09/01/1833 James Fleming, North Shields
13/04/1850 Unknown owner, Dartmouth
21/07/1851 Registered at Dartmouth
by 1858 Registered at Teignmouth
by 1862 John Crossman, Teignmouth
08/01/1862 Abandoned
Comments: 1836: Lengthened by T & W Smith at St Peter's Dock
Made a fortune for her owner in the Ichaboe "guano rush"
1846: Ripped & repaired at a cost of £1,200
08/01/1862: Found, waterlogged & abandoned 700 miles west of Land's End
On a voyage from Quebec to Teignmouth with a cargo of timber