Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday 30th January, 1872:
LAUNCH OF IRON SCREW-STEAMER AT WEST HARTLEPOOL. —Messrs Denton, Gray, and Co., launched from their building yard on Saturday afternoon, a splendidly modelled iron screw steamer of the following dimensions:—Length overall, 237 feet; extreme breadth, 30 feet; depth of hold, 17 feet; gross register, about 1,000 tons. She is to be brigantine rigged, and will be engined by Messrs. Blair and Co., of Stockton-on-Tees, with 110 hp surface condensers. She will class 90A at Lloyd's, and is built to the order of Mr. F. Herskind, West Hartlepool, and, as she glided from the stocks, was christened the Acacia by Mrs R.C. Denton.
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