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Name: CHAMPION
Launched: 1877
Completed: 06/1877
Builder: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 129
Dimensions: 140grt, 27nrt, 110.7 x 19.4 x 9.8ft; (1900: 140grt, 19nrt)
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (29.5 x 51ins), 96nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76964
History:
06/06/1877 Thomas W Elliott, Stepney, London; registered at London
1879 SA de Remorquage au Port du Calais; registered at Calais; renamed HERCULE
1891 Chambre de Commerce de Calais' Calais
1900 Joseph Constant, London; renamed CHAMPION
10/1900 Charles C Duncan, Charles W Duncan & George Robinson; registered at Middlesbrough
11/1900 Joseph Crosthwaite, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1918 Joseph Crosthwaite Jr, North Shields
03/1924 Joseph Crosthwaite (Tugs) Ltd, North Shields
06/1935 Broken up
Comments: 06/1935: Broken up by T Young & Sons Ltd at Sunderland


Above photo of Crosthwaite's WARRIOR (with CHAMPION behind) is courtesy of Robert Amess