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Name: SARAH MILLS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1838
Completed: 1838
Builder: Cuthbert Taylor
Yard: Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 162grt, 77.3 x 20.2 x 13.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (by 1880: Brig); (by 1887: Jury)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 23675
History:
1838 J Mills, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool
14/07/1855 Registered at Lynn, Norfolk
by 1867 John Kemp, Lynn
by 1870 John Coates, Lynn
by 1880 William Watson, Seaham Harbour
28/01/1887 John Blumer Bushell, South Shields; registered at South Shields
10/05/1889 William Gray Bushell, South Shields
25/01/1890 Wrecked
Comments: 1887: Converted to a lighter with jury rig
25/01/1890: Stranded off Montrose while being towed
On a voyage from Bo'ness to Aberdeen with a cargo of coal


Edinburgh Evening News, Saturday, 25/01/1890