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Name: HECTOR
Launched: 1882
Completed: 10/1882
Builder: JR Maxwell & Co, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 101grt, 15nrt, 94.4 x 18.3 x 9.9ft
Engines: L1cyl (34 x 51ins), 38nhp
Engines by: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 81977
History:
18/10/1882 John White, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1884 Gertrude & Juliana White, South Shields
07/1913 John White, South Shields
08/1918 Coulson Tug Co Ltd (manager JC Coulson, South Shields)
1925 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Newcastle
04/1926 Broken up


Above: HECTOR when operated by John White. Photo courtesy of Peter Barker

Above: HECTOR at the launch of HMS INVINCIBLE at Elswick in 1907. Photo copyright Newcastle City Libraries