| Name: | WILLIAM JOLLIFFE |
| Launched: | 15/01/1885 |
| Completed: | 04/1885 |
| Builder: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 211 |
| Dimensions: | 330grt, 48nrt, 148.4 x 26.2 x 13.9ft; (1906: 360grt, 0nrt) |
| Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 60 x 30ins), 250nhp, 1200ihp, 12kts; (1906: 164nhp) |
| Engines by: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 91191 |
| History: | |
| 19/03/1885 | Thomas A Jolliffe (W & T Jolliffe), Liverpool; registered at Liverpool |
| 05/1885 | The Admiralty; renamed WOODCOCK |
| 01/05/1886 | Renamed JACKAL |
| 10/07/1906 | Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast; registered at Belfast |
| 1917 | Ocean Transport Co Ltd (C Payne, manager), London |
| 09/08/1917 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 01/01/1915: Hired by The Admiralty; renamed JACK |
| 09/08/1917: Wrecked on Bondicarr Rocks, south of Amble, Northumberland | |
| She was towing hopper barge NIPPER which was undamaged & crew rescued |
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