RESOLUTE / PARADOX

Built 1857
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 203 grt, 137 nrt
Length / beam / draft 134.4 x 23.0 x 12.0 ft (1869: 172.1 x 20.8 ft)
Shipbuilder (yard number) William Simons, Whiteinch, Glasgow (85)
Engine Builder Wingate & Co., Glasgow
Engine 1- Screw. 2-cyl. 45hp.
From 1870: C.2-cyl. (12” & 24” x 26”) by Gilbert & Cooper, Hull. 65hp
O.N. 18248 - from 1869, 58739
Owners 1857 France & Greenwood, Goole as RESOLUTE
  1859 William France, Goole
  Run down in Hull Roads on 19 July 1869, rebuilt by Gilbert & Cooper, Hull and renamed PARADOX.
  1871 William France (Leeds)
  05/1883 Alexander H. Taylor, Aberdeen (registry transferred 29/05/1883)
  894 G. Elmsmie & Son, Aberdeen
   
Fate 14/12/1895 wrecked at Souter Point, in ballast from Aberdeen for Sunderland

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