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 |