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Name: TUDOR
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 01/06/1844
Completed: 06/1844
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: St Peter's, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 1064nrt, 159.9 x 31.6 x 22.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 27169
History:
26/06/1844 T & W Smith, Newcastle
15/07/1844 T & W Smith, Newcastle and Mark Josselyn Lay, London
10/10/1844 T & W Smith, Newcastle; Mark Josselyn Lay, London and Henry Roberts, Lymington
18/01/1854 William Smith, Newcastle; Mark Josselyn Lay, London and Henry Roberts, Lymington
15/10/1855 William Smith, Newcastle
23/10/1855 George Henry Tempest Hicks, London
02/06/1857 George Henry Tempest Hicks & Hastings Hicks, London
27/09/1858 Thomas Dommick, James Teighe & Frederick Smith, London
14/12/1860 Registered at London
No later history known
Comments: Initially used as an Indiaman, maiden voyage to Calcutta
23/10/1855: Purchased for £8,750
1859: Chartered to take adult immigrants to South Africa at £12.45 per head


Illustrated London News, Saturday, 15/06/1844

Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 08/06/1844