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Name: WILLIAM DODDS
Launched: 28/05/1885
Completed: 1885
Builder: JR Maxwell, South Shields
Yard Number: 44
Dimensions: 87grt, 1nrt, 89.0 x 18.7 x 9.5ft; (1890: 9nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (32.5 x 48ins), 34nhp
Engines By: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 89806
History:
06/08/1885 Mary, William & John Dodds, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1901 Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow; renamed CLEVELAND
1906 George W Todd, Joseph Cooper, William M Brown & Alfred Fellows, Jarrow
1913 The Jarrow Tug & Lighter Co Ltd, Jarrow
1916 The Cotton Powder Co Ltd, London
1920 Broken up
Comments: The Cotton Powder Co Ltd were manufacturers of cordite, guncotton, blasting explosives,
distress signals, detonators etc with their works at Faversham
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details