Name: PACTOLUS
Launched:
Completed: 09/1870
Builder: CW Dodgin & Co, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 93grt, 17nrt, 87.2 x 17.9 x 9.6ft
Engines: SL1cyl (32.5 x 48ins), 38nhp
Engines By: TR Scott & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 60561
History:
09/1870 TJ Newton et al, North Shields; registered at North Shields
02/1874 JFF Common, North Shields
1875 J Somers, Dublin; registered at Dublin
1876 H Andrews, Belfast; registered at Belfast
10/1892 Anthony Irwing, Sunderland
02/1893 Anthony & Susannah Irwing, Sunderland
02/1905 Broken up
Comments:

     PACTOLUS tows a caisson down the River Wear on the 11th June 1900.

     It had been built at the Doxford yard for the construction of the Port's South Breakwater.

     Photos courtesy of Eddie Frost.

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