Name: JANE JOLLIFFE
Launched: 12/06/1888
Completed: 07/1888
Builder: J Readhead & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 237
Dimensions: 235grt, 16nrt, 133.0 x 22.6 x 12.9ft
Engines: T3cyl, (16, 26 & 43 x 30ins), 200nhp
Engines By: J Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 93792
History:
1888 W & T Jolliffe, Liverpool
1890 Sarah A Jolliffe & John Woodburn, Liverpool (t/a W & T Jolliffe)
07/1894 Sarah A Howard (née Jolliffe) & John Woodburn, Liverpool (t/a W & T Jolliffe)
1896 Sold to W & T Jolliffe
04/1908 Purchased by W & T Jolliffe Ltd (Alexandra Towing Company Ltd, managers)
1913 Sold to Société Provençale de Remorquage, Marseille; renamed PHOCEEN
1920 Sold to Société Nationale de Sauvetage et de Remorquage, Paris
1922 Managed by Union Française et Maritime, Paris
1925 Sold to Georg C Stringo, Piraeus; renamed MIMIS
1939 Owner restyled as Maison Stringo SA, Piraeus
1940 Requisitioned by the Royal Hellenic Navy
1941 German Kriegsmarine; renamed GA 23
1944 No further history known
Comments: Built with 2 funnels, later reduced to 1 funnel
23/1/1915 to 28/3/1919 Requisitioned by Marine Nationale
1920: Rebuilt as a salvage tug
1940: Requisitioned by the Royal Hellenic Navy
29/03/1941: Sank after hitting a mine near Tourlos, Aegina
30/03/1943: Raised & repaired by the German Kriegsmarine; renamed GA 23
1944: Stricken after engine damage
Presumed broken up
Thanks to Bill Harvey & Jaap Bijl for the above details

     Above: JANE JOLLIFFE

     Above: MIMIS

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