Name: FYLDE
Launched: 17/01/1881
Completed: 02/1881
Builder: J Reid & Co, Port Glasgow
Yard Number: 6Q
Dimensions: 245grt, 4nrt, 122.4 x 22.5 x 10.8ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl, 98nhp
Engines By: Rankin & Blackmore Ltd, Greenock
Propulsion: 2 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 73764
History:
1881 Lancashire & Yorkshire & London & North Western Railway Companies
1904 Liverpool Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as Respects Wrecked and
Damaged Property; "The Liverpool Salvage Association"; renamed PLOVER
1909 Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co Ltd, South Shields
1920 Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd, South Shields
1957 Broken up by CW Dorkin &Co, Gateshead
Comments: 26/9/1914 to 8/3/1920 on Admiralty service as PEEWIT
1/1953 damaged when run down by 'Blenheim' at Stanhope Buoys, South Shields
4/1957 sold to British Iron & Steel Corp for £4,500 and allocated to CW Dorkin

     Above: PLOVER and others towing HMS THUNDERER into Blyth for scrapping in 1927

     Above: Photo courtesy of Alan Hughes

     Above: Photo courtesy of Ron Henderson

     
     
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