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Name: COASTGUARD
Launched: 1876
Completed: 1876
Builder: Driver & Hughes, Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 80grt, 11nrt, 87.7 x 17.3 x 9.3ft
Engines: (1877: SL1cyl, 30nhp)
Engines By: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 76635
History:
1876 Unknown owner
04/1877 William Dodds, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1883 William Meff et al, Aberdeen; registered at Aberdeen
1893 Peter Johnstone, Nigg & David Sherrit, Torry
1902 Matthew T MacMillan, Cullercoats
1903 Broken up
Comments: 1877: The engine for COASTGUARD is recorded as having been manufactured in 1877
This leaves the question of whether she was built as a stock boat and without an engine until the new owner specified what power was required. Or whether the first engine failed in some way.
1902: Matthew T MacMillan was a metal broker
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details