Name: PRESIDENT
Launched: 03/08/1876
Completed: 08/1876
Builder: John Redhead & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 124
Dimensions: 130grt, 26nrt, 100.0 x 20.0 x 9.9ft
Engines: SL2cyl (30 x 52ins), 70rhp, 420ihp
Engines By: John Redhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86652
History:
08/1876 Limerick Towing Co, Limerick
1891 George Brown et al, South Shields
07/1923 Owner restyled Brown Tug Co Ltd
1930 Transferred to France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd
02/1959 Broken up
Comments: Some time before 1936 she was altered from a twin-funnel to single funnel
1959: Sold to BISCO for £600 and allocated to
Thomas Young & Sons (Shipbreakers) Ltd, Sunderland

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