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Name: DREADFUL
Launched: 22/12/1911
Completed: 03/1912
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 621
Dimensions: 286grt, 0nrt, 118.5 x 25.2 x 13.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (15, 23.5 & 38 x 30ins), 74rhp
Engines By: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 131148
History:
03/1912 Canadian Tugboat Co Ltd; registered at Vancouver
05/1918 Sold to the Admiralty
1920 William Watkins Ltd; registered at London; renamed RUMANIA
1923 Pacific Tug & Barge Co; renamed PACIFIC MONARCH
1924 Registered at Vancouver, British Columbia
1926 Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Co Ltd
1952 Broken up
Comments: Built as a subcontract from J Pollock & Sons & Co Ltd, Naval Architects, London
Pollock's contract number 436
09/05/1917 to 09/05/1918: Hired to the Admiralty allocated pennant W21
1923: Cost £10,500


Above photo as DREADFUL is copyright of Anne Salmon