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Name: CENTRAL NO 2
Launched: 02/02/1912
Completed: 03/1912
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 287
Dimensions: 137grt, 0nrt, 92.2 x 21.1 x 10.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 43 x 27ins), 66rhp
Engines by: Baird Bros, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 132122
History:
20/03/1912 Great Central Railway Co; registered at Grimsby
01/01/1923 Transferred to the London & North Eastern Railway Co Ltd
21/03/1947 Tees Towing Co Ltd (Robinson & Crosthwaite, managers), Middlesbrough
1947 Registered at Middlesbrough; renamed TEMPLE CROSS
1949 Managed by William Crosthwaite & Son, Middlesbrough
25/04/1962 Broken up
Comments: 1914: On Admiralty service assigned pennant W11
1919: Returned to owners
21/03/1947: Cost £2,750
25/04/1962: Sold for breaking up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Rotterdam


Above photo as TEMPLE CROSS courtesy of Peter Sommerville