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Name: CROISSET
Launched:
Completed: 1892
Builder: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Yard Number: 478
Dimensions: 28grt, 5nrt, 60.5 x 13.2 x 6.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (10 & 18 x 14ins), 30nhp, 120ihp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1901: 114714)
History:
1892 Unknown owner, France
1900 Unknown owner, UK
12/07/1901 Alfred Strover Williams; registered at London
1901 London Grain Elevator Co (Alfred S Williams, London), London
12/1910 Port of London Authority, London
11/1941 WJR Whitehair Ltd, London
No further history known
Comments: 1892: Probably owned at Rouen
19/06/1900: Arrived on the Thames from Le Havre
1900: Entered service on the Thames
1970: Register closed - probably "no trace"


Above photo is courtesy of Barney Hunt