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Name: WILLIAM PRESTON
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1841
Completed: 1841
Builder: Luke Blumer
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 160tonsb, 75.4 x 20.1 x 12.6ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
17/03/1841 Robert Ekless & Robert Couper Jnr, South Shields
14/02/1842 Wrecked
Comments: 14/02/1842: Wrecked on Western Rocks, Scilly Islands
On a voyage from Odessa to the UK with a cargo of wheat