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Name: SISTERS
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1840
Completed: 08/1840
Builder: Thomas Metcalfe
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 243tonsb, 86.1 x 23.0 x 15.3ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 3505
History:
15/08/1840 Bostock Whinney & Peter Yorston, South Shields
13/05/1860 George Best Stoddart & Peter Yorston, South Shields
31/05/1860 Matthew Caysen, South Shields
28/11/1860 William, Matthew & Marianne Cay, South Shields
21/09/1864 William & Matthew Cay & Samuel Malcolm, South Shields
26/12/1868 Wrecked
Comments: 26/12/1868: Wrecked on Gunfleet Sand, north Thames estuary