Name: WILLIAM JOLLIFFE
Launched: 09/1885
Completed: 1885
Builder: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 219
Dimensions: 332grt, 48nrt, 148.4 x 26.2 x 13.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (30, 60 x 30ins), 250nhp, 976ihp, 12kts
Engines By: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 91255
History:
1885 Thomas A Jolliffe (t/a W & T Jolliffe), Liverpool
1890 Transferred to Sarah A Jolliffe (later Howard), Liverpool and John Woodburn, Windermere
1896 Sold to William T Jolliffe (t/a W & T Jolliffe), Liverpool
1907 Sold to British Columbia Salvage Co (William F Bullen), Victoria, BC
1913 Sold to Canadian Pacific Railways; renamed NITINAT
1924 Sold to Pacific Salvage Co Ltd, Victoria; renamed SALVAGE CHIEF
1925 Sank
Comments: 07/02/1925: Wrecked on Merry Island, Wellcome Passage, British Columbia, while assisting
the grounded tow of tug CAPE SCOTT (the tow was two Davis rafts)
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details

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