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Name: PRINCE
Launched: 1859
Completed: 12/1859
Builder: Hessell & Holmes, Rye
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 89grt, 37nrt, 90.3 x 18.5 x 9.0ft
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (27.7 x 42ins), 52nhp
Engines by: JA Young, Blackwall
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 28352
History:
01/1860 Daniel Barker et al, London; registered at London
1869 J Ibbetson Spicer et al, Bermondsey
1873 William Moran, Hull
1874 David SH Oates et al, Thames
1882 Ebenezer Edwards, Gravesend
12/1895 John Dry, South Shields; registered at South Shields
05/1908 John Dry Steam Tugs Ltd, South Shields
1912 Broken up
Comments: 1912: Broken up at Hylton on the River Wear


Above poto, dated 24/07/1888, is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich - Gould collection

Above poto, dated 09/06/1893, is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich - Gould collection

Dry's PRINCE (outboard) and SNOWDON (inboard) at South Shields in 1910