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Name: WEXFORD
Launched: 12/01/1888
Completed: 03/1888
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 138
Dimensions: 169grt, 58nrt, 108.0 x 18.9 x 9.9ft
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (28 x 50ins), 360ihp, 80nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 70154
History:
03/1888 Wexford Harbour Commissioners; registered at Wexford
1919 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Newcastle
1922 Registered at Sunderland
06/1956 Broken up
Comments: 07/1915 to 04/1918: Hired by Admiralty
06/1956: Sold to British Iron & Steel Corp for £1675
Allocated to Thomas Young & Sons (Shipbreakers) at Sunderland


Above photo courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photo courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photo courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe

Above photo courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe