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Name: SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Launched: 26/02/1876
Completed: 07/1876
Builder: William Allsup & Sons, Preston
Yard Number: 37
Dimensions: 151grt, 47nrt, 110.1 x 19.1 x 10.0ft
Engines: Diagonal, 2 x 1cyl (30 x 54ins), 85nhp
Engines By: W Allsup & Sons, Preston
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 74618
History:
07/1876 Great Western Railway Co; registered at Plymouth
02/1896 Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co; registered at South Shields
1897 Cia de Remolcadores del Cantabrico; registered at Bilbao; renamed NERVION
No later history known
Comments: 1896: Chartered to Sandford, Gravesend
1905: Reduced to a lighter for use at Bibao


Above photo of SIR WALTER RALEIGH at Plymouth is copyright of South Shields Libraries