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Above: Select the required Tug Owner by using the initial letter of the Owner's Name eg: Batey, Lawson or Tyne.
KEY BELOW: D / H / P (D = basic dimensions are shown; H = a history is given; P = one or more photographs are available)
Tug Owner: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company, Jarrow
As well as being a shipbuilder (see HERE), Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co also owned tugs.
Initially they may have been owned by Charles M Palmer himself or the partnership of G & CM Palmer, Newcastle.
As they owned a long river frontage, with shipbuilding and iron/steel making facilities, they probably needed tugs to move ships and barges around the works.
No further information is known about their tug owning activities.
The following tugs were owned or operated by the Palmer companies:
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