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Name: WEST HYDE
Launched:
Completed: 07/1919
Builder: Crabtree & Sons, Great Yarmouth
Yard Number: 174
Dimensions: 154grt, 3nrt, 88.5 x 21.2 x 10.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (15 &32 x 24ins), 35nhp, 430ihp
Engines by: Crabtree & Sons, Great Yarmouth
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 143296
History:
17/06/1919 The Admiralty; registered at London
12/1947 Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd, Newcastle
02/1948 Registered at Newcastle; renamed SEASIDER
09/1949 Transferred to Blyth Tug Co Ltd
03/1969 Broken up
Comments: Launched as HS 95 for the War Office
1947: Cost £5,125
09/1949: Cost £10,450
03/1969 03/1969: Broken up by Hughes Bolckow Ltd, Blyth; Cost £2,100


Above photo as WEST HYDE is courtesy of István Rádi. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo as SEASIDER is courtesy of John Ward-McQuaid

Above photo as SEASIDER is courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe

Above: SEASIDER with the partly raised CHIPCHASE. Photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SEASIDER is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as SEASIDER is courtesy of Alfred Turner. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo as SEASIDER is courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photo as SEASIDER is copyright of Ron Dobson