| Name: | PRESIDENT |
| Launched: | 03/08/1876 |
| Completed: | 08/1876 |
| Builder: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 124 |
| Dimensions: | 130grt, 26nrt, 100.0 x 20.0 x 9.9ft |
| Engines: | 2 x SL1cyl (30 x 52ins), 70rhp, 420ihp |
| Engines by: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 86652 |
| History: | |
| 08/1876 | Limerick Towing Co (Richard Russell,manager), Limerick |
| 18/04/1884 | James Spaight, Limerick; registered at Limerick |
| 1889 | Cornelius Morley, Portlaw, Waterford (Lower Shannon Steamship Co,manager, Limerick) |
| 1891 | George Brown, South Shields; registered at South Shields |
| 07/1923 | Brown Tug Co Ltd (George Brown, manager), South Shields |
| 1926 | Manager became Robert Lincoln, South Shields |
| 1930 | France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd (JE Dawson, manager), South Shields |
| 194x | Manager became Colonel F Dawson |
| 02/1959 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 18/04/1884: First time registered |
| 1889: New boiler | |
| Some time before 1936 she was altered from a twin-funnel to single funnel | |
| 1959: Sold to BISCO - British Iron & Steel Corp for £600 & allocated to | |
| Thomas Young & Sons (Shipbreakers) Ltd, Sunderland for breaking up | |
| 06/02/1959: Arrived at Sunderland for breaking up |
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