Name: FLYING CHILDERS
Launched:
Completed: 1864
Builder: Woodhouse A, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 84gt; 29net; 88.4 x 17.9 x 9.2ft
Engines: 1cyl; 60nhp
Engines by: Rennoldson JP, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 50351
History:
1864 Clyde Shipping Co, Glasgow
1872 James P Rennoldson, South Shields
1873 John Robinson, Middlesbrough
1874 Thomas Shores, Grimsby
1875 John Manton, Grimsby
1885 John Anderson & Robert Chater, North Shields
1890 Edmund Alfred Durrant, Great Yarmouth
1896 Taken over by creditors: Lovewell Blake & William Harrison, Great Yarmouth
1896 Joseph Guy, Hull
1898 William H Sharp, Grimsby
1898 Charles Skipper, King's Lynn
1899 Transferred to Flying Childers Steam Tug Co with Charles Skipper as manager
1900 John L Richardson, Hull
1901 Robert Ford, Hull
1902 Wilfred Doughty, Hull
1902 Flying Childers Steam Tug Co, Hull with Samuel Harrison as manager
1905 Broken up by MT MacMillan
Comments: Sold to JP Rennoldson in part exchange for FLYING TEMPEST

























      FLYING CHILDERS towing fishing vessels out to sea. Photo: World Ship Society
     
     
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