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Name: RHEDA
Launched: n/a
Completed: 1925
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1004
Dimensions: 107grt, 41nrt, 72.9 x 18.0 x 7.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 4cyl (8.5 x 9.5ins)
Engines by: Norris, Henty & Gardners Ltd, Manchester
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1943: 174489)
History:
1925 Newfoundland Export & Shipping Co Ltd
22/05/1943 Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd; registered at St John's
No later history known
Comments: Built as a timber tug with a flat bottom and winches
so it could haul itself over land between creeks
Built in kit form & assembled in Canada