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Name: ESK
Launched: 02/11/1857
Completed: 12/1857
Builder: James Jackson, West Holborn, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 86grt, 21nrt, 89.0 x 17.7 x 9.3ft; (1873: 86grt, 12nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 45nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 17458
History:
08/12/1857 Whitby & Robin Hood's Bay Steam Packet Co; registered at Whitby
1872 Wm Parkinson; registered at Middlesbrough
1874 Wm Bulmer, Middlesbrough
1877 George Hopper, Stockton
1879 Broken up
Comments: Passenger ship & tug operating out of Whitby


Above photo is courtesy of the RNLI Museum