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Name: CENTRAL NO 1
Launched: 12/04/1910
Completed: 06/1910
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 275
Dimensions: 136grt, 1nrt, 92.1 x 21.1 x 10.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 43 x 27ins), 78nhp, 750ihp
Engines By: Baird Bros, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 127861
History:
06/1910 The Great Central Railway Co, London; registered at Grimsby
01/01/1923 London & North Eastern Railway Co, London
21/03/1947 Tees Towing Co Ltd; registered at Middlesbrough; renamed SILVER CROSS
21/03/1947 Robinson & Crosthwaite, managers
1949 William Crosthwaite & Son, appointed as managers
24/03/1958 JH Pigott & Son Ltd; registered at Grimsby; renamed LADY JOAN
06/06/1964 Broken up
Comments: Also known as just NO 1
1914 to 1919: On Admiralty service
1947: Cost £2,750
06/06/1964: Arrived at Thomas W Ward Ltd at Inverkeithing for breaking up
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details


Above photograph as CENTRAL NO 1 courtesy of John Ward-McQuaid

Above photograph as LADY JOAN courtesy of Ronald Stanford

Above photograph as LADY JOAN copyright of Charlie Hill