Name: GEORGE V
Launched: 20/11/1914
Completed: 01/1915
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 294
Dimensions: 224grt, 3nrt, 106.1 x 24.4 x 12.3ft
Engines: T3cyl, 850ihp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 133567
History:
1915 MH Redhead & SH White (Trading as R Readhead & Son)
1916 R Readhead & Son Ltd
1929 Redhead & Dry's Tugs Ltd
1944 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd
1959 Chartered to Tyne Tugs Ltd
1977 Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd
1978 Coastal Marine Services, Plymouth, for £11,500
1981 Bankside Shipping & Towage Co Ltd, Queenborough
1982 NE Murray, Queenborough
1984 Estuary Tugs Ltd, Sark
1987 Lavington International Ltd, Gibraltar
2007 Broken up at Queenborough
Comments: Purchased from builder for £9,500
Hired by the Admiralty 1917 to 1919
Re-engined to diesel in 1954 by PK Harris & Sons Ltd, Appledore; 1086bhp

     Above photograph copyright Malcolm Donnelly

     
     
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