RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY
| Name | ROBERT STEPHENSON |
| Type | Cargo/Passenger iron steamship |
| Yard Number | 2 |
| Launched | 27/07/1854 |
| Completed | 12/1854 |
| Off. Number | 18284 |
| Engine builder | Robert Stephenson, Newcastle |
| Engine type | Steam, 80 hp. |
| GRT | 506, (565 builder's measurement) |
| Length (feet) | 185 |
| Beam (feet) | 24.6 |
| First owner | First registered to Wm. S. Andrews, London |
| History | later owner John Smurthwaite & Co., Sunderland |
| 10/01/1855 BRUISER, British Admiralty, for service as floating corn mill to supply British Army in Balaclava, Crimea. | |
| 1857 Purchased by General Steam Navigation Co., London | |
| Fate | 19/08/1866 sank off Aldborough after collision with steamer HASWELL on passage Tyne to London. |
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