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Name: RENOWN
Launched: 1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: Hughes & Driver, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 94grt, 6nrt, 94.0 x 18.3 x 9.8ft
Engines: SL1cyl (33.5 x 50ins), 36nhp
Engines By: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 79249
History:
30/05/1881 Francis Warren, John Stephenson, Peter M Stephenson & George Legg, North Shields
30/05/1881 Registered at North Shields
1893 Francis Warren, Mary Stephenson, Peter M Stephenson & George Legg, North Shields
1897 Francis Warren, Mary & Elizabeth Stephenson and George Legg, North Shields
12/09/1905 Francis Warren and Mary & Elizabeth Stephenson, North Shields
12/09/1905 Registered at Dundee
by 1907 William Cowperthwaite, Alfred Warren and Mary & Elizabeth Stephenson
by 1907 Managed by Peter M Stephenson
12/03/1907 William Cowperthwaite, Alfred Warren and Peter & Elizabeth Stephenson
15/11/1911 Ralph Jull, Percy Main and John R Jull, St Anthony's
30/01/1918 John Carr Coulson, South Shields
18/06/1918 The Coulson Tug Co Ltd, South Shields
26/08/1918 Jonathan & Thomas Smith, Albert Robinson and James Eves, Grimsby
1918 Registered at Grimsby
1920 Broken up
Comments: 1893: John Stephenson died leaving his shares to widow Mary
1897: Peter Stephenson died leaving his shares to widow Elizabeth
15/05/1906: Francis Warren died leaving his shares to Alfred George Warren
12/03/1907: Mary Stephenson passed her shares to Peter M Stephenson
c 1918: Reported sunk off Grimsby
01/04/1920: Registry closed as broken up
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo, showing RENOWN at Dundee, is courtesy of David Asprey

Dundee Evening Telegraph, Monday, 13/03/1911