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Name: ZION
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1847
Completed: 05/1847
Builder: Trotter & Young
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 622nrt, 118.5 x 27.5 x 20.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
25/05/1847 James Miller, North Shields
26/06/1847 James Miller & John Losh, North Shields and George Wooler Beckwith, Newcastle
22/10/1853 Ashore
Comments: 21/09/1853: Put into Madras, leaky and had to tranship her cargo
On a voyage from Coringa to London
19/10/1853: Left Madras for Calcutta to have repairs done
22/10/1853: Run ashore a few miles N of Tranquebar in a sinking state
Wreck subsequently sold