by magoonigal » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:38 am
Official Number 109380
First Registered Blyth 1910.
Launched by Fleming and Ferguson at Paisley on the 17th September 1895 as Yard Number 217.
Steel Hulled self propelled Steam Dredger for The Blyth Harbour Commissioners, Blyth, Northumberland.
Mgr Christopher E Baldwin.
Length 181.7ft. Beam 35.1ft. Depth of Hold 14ft.
399 Net. 674 Gross.
Engine. 133 HP
Sold May 1917 to Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Co Ltd
Queen Anne's Chambers, Tothill St, Westminster.
Mgr Arthur M Hughes, 35 Mark Lane, London EC3
Drops out of the MNL about 1927. So either Scrapped or Sold and renamed.
Tilbury Contracting were formed in 1884 and eventually became part of Westminster Dredging.
Paul Hood. + WSS Tyneside Branch Hon Sec.