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Name: BROCK
Launched: 01/11/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: Thomas B Seath & Co, Rutherglen
Yard Number: 236
Dimensions: 122grt, 9nrt, 95.2 x 19.1 x 9.0ft; (1890: 141grt, 15nrt)
Engines: 2 x 2cyl (18 & 34 x 24ins), 500ihp
Engines By: Rankin & Blackmore Ltd, Greenock
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89701
History:
1883 Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western Railway Companies, registered at Fleetwood
1902 GEJ Moody, Cleethorpes
10/1903 Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co Ltd
1904 Registered at South Shields; renamed MENTOR
06/1920 Transferred to Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd
03/1937 VA Cappon Tugs Ltd; registered at Dundee
03/1940 Transferred to Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd
07/1946 Broken up
Comments: 03/1937: Cost £570
07/1946: Broken up at Ghent, Belgium


Above photo as MENTOR courtesy of Eddie Frost