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Name: TIPPER
Launched:
Completed: 1879
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 78
Dimensions: 85grt, 11nrt, 85.5 x 17.6 x 9.2ft; (1909: 93grt, 90nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 40nhp; (1909: None)
Engines By: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle; (1909: None)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79173
History:
1879 Lewes Smyth, William Hobbs, John Stedman, George Stone & William Mockford, Newhaven
1879 Registered at Newhaven
1901 Lewis Smythe et al, Newhaven
1906 John H Bull, Newhaven
1909 Patrick McGetrick, Birkenhead
1927 Charles H Horabin, Moreton, Cheshire
1928 Michael Halligan, Liverpool
1937 Broken up
Comments: A subcontract from Hepple & Co
1901: Lewis Smythe et al were Newhaven pilots
1909: Converted to river barge, 93grt, 90nrt, 85.5 x 17.6 x 9.2ft


Above photo courtesy of Carel Boon