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Name: SEATON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1872
Completed: 1872
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Company Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 269grt, 257nrt, 130.8 x 26.6 x 9.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 67337
History:
05/02/1873 Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Company Ltd, Jarrow
27/07/1876 Manager became John Price, Jarrow
02/12/1881 Wrecked
Comments: 02/12/1881: Stranded 5 miles south of Seaham
Came off but had to be run aground again to prevent sinking
On a voyage from the Tyne with a cargo of coal
Subsequently broken up