Name: | SUSANNAH THRIFT |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 01/1865 |
Completed: | 01/1865 |
Builder: | Robert Fulton |
Yard: | Newcastle |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 219grt, 102.9 x 25.0 x 14.3ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Brig; (by 1875: Square rigged) |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 49760 |
History: | |
28/01/1865 | Robert Thrift, Blyth; registered at North Shields |
1875 | Mrs SA Thrift, Blyth |
by 1877 | JS Thrift & J Wigham, North Shields |
1878 | John Wigham, Morpeth |
by 1887 | William Higgs, Clapham |
10/04/1888 | Matthew Pearson, South Shields; registered at South Shields |
30/04/1888 | Matthew Pearson, South Shields & William Clarkson, Whitby |
13/10/1899 | Sank |
Comments: | 13/10/1899: Sank after a collision with LEOPOLD II off Dover |
On a voyage from the Tyne towards Cowes with a cargo of coal | |
Also seen as built by A & R Hopper at Newcastle |
Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 17/10/1899