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Name: WASHINGTON
Launched: 1870
Completed: 09/1870
Builder: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 58
Dimensions: 122grt, 22nrt, 104.9 x 18.4 x 10.1ft; (1887: 124grt, 1nrt); (1891: 124grt, 16nrt)
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (27 x 46ins), 50nhp
Engines by: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 63655
History:
19/09/1870 William George Ives et al, Gravesend; registered at London
1874 Joseph Martin, London
1879 Miss SC Martin, London
1879 Martha Nicholson, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1883 John Tully, Sunderland
12/1883 Thomas A Dry, North Shields; registered at North Shields
07/1889 John Dry, South Shields
05/1908 John Dry Steam Tugs Ltd, South Shields
08/1929 Redhead & Dry's Tugs Ltd, South Shields
05/1944 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Newcastle
04/1952 Broken up
Comments: 04/1952: Broken up by JJ King & Co Ltd at Gateshead


Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

Above photo is courtesy of Robert Amess

Above photo is copyright of South Shields Library

Above photo is courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe

Above photo is courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe