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Name: EARL OF BUTE
Launched: 05/05/1886
Completed: 1886
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 132
Dimensions: 132grt, 15nrt, 108.0 x 18.6 x 9.7ft; (1890: 145grt, 25nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (36.25 x 54ins), 80nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89209
History:
1886 Martin & Marquand; registered at Cardiff
1901 C Svorono & Sons, Rostoff on Don, Russia; renamed CONSTANTINE
by 1930 Government of USSR, Rostoff
No later history known
Comments: Operated as a tug and provided cruises up and down the Bristol Channel
1918: Also listed as CONSTANTIN
Thanks to David Tranter who found the change of name in 1901