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Name: VY KING
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 04/08/1857
Completed: 09/1857
Builder: Gaddy & Lamb
Yard: Tyne Main, Gateshead
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 45nrt, 54.0 x 17.1 x 8.3ft (*)
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 18141
History:
17/09/1857 George Guthrie & Co, Kirkwall; registered at Kirkwall
by 1865 Alexander Russell, Kirkwall
by 1869 Stephen Muir, Kirkwall
by 1870 John Williamson, Kirkwall
by 1871 Nicol Spence, Kirkwall
by 1889 John Anderson, Peterhead; registered at Peterhead
No later history known
Comments: (*) Dimensions are: Length aloft, Breadth extreme, Depth of hold