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Name: WILLIAM REED
Type: Sailing vessel
Launched: 1832
Completed: 1832
Builder: Thomas Metcalfe
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 234tonsb, 85.5 x 25.2 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 33041
History:
23/06/1832 Davis Hewson Reed and George & Thomas Metcalfe, South Shields
23/12/1848 George Metcalfe & John Tinley, South Shields
05/12/1850 George & Thomas Metcalfe, South Shields
04/04/1859 Thomas Metcalfe, South Shields
23/06/1860 CD Barker & H Milvain, Newcastle; R Bell & J Fawcus, South & North Shields
13/07/1860 William Irvin, North Shields
28/05/1861 Sank
Comments: 13/01/1859: George Metcalfe died
28/05/1861: Lost off the coast of Jutland
On a voyage from the Tyne to Cronstadt