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Name: BLUE BONNET
Launched:
Completed: 1877
Builder: Driver & Hughes, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 63grt, 1nrt, 78.2 x 16.8 x 8.8ft
Engines: SL1cyl, 27nhp
Engines By: TR Scott & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 76653
History:
09/01/1878 John T Spence & William Murray, North Shields
1880 John T Spence, North Shields
188X John T Spence, Roger Spence & Anthony Strong, North Shields
1895 David Robertson, Leith
1896 William Taylor, Grangemouth
1897 Registered at Grangemouth
1903 Thomas P Laird, Edinburgh
1904 Thomas G Kirkham, Felling on Tyne
1907 Matthew Kirton, Walbottle, Northumberland
1916 The Jarrow Tug & Lighter Co Ltd, Jarrow
1919 William N Kirton & Henry Kirton (Newburn on Tyne), Thomas D Foster (Lemington),
and George W Todd & William M Brown (Jarrow), Trading as Kirton & Foster
1923 Broken up
Comments: 1923: Broken up at South Hylton, Sunderland


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