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Name: CLEVELAND
Launched: 1880
Completed: 1881
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 87
Dimensions: 172grt, 58nrt, 120.0 x 20.6 x 10.6ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (32 x 54ins), 95nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82753
History:
08/03/1881 North Eastern Railway Co, (W Bulmer, manager); registered at Middlesbrough
22/04/1896 AE Ballan appointed manager
21/08/1898 T Pickering appointed manager
03/12/1898 T Chalt appointed manager
21/01/1914 G Robinson & Co, Middlesbrough (CW Robinson manager)
04/1919 Robinson Tug Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
30/07/1920 Tees Towing Co Ltd, Middlesbrough (WH Crosthwaite & CW Robinson managers)
05/04/1935 Charles Duncan & Sons Ltd, Middlesbrough
06/05/1947 Broken up
Comments: 1888: New boiler fitted
1919: Cost £2700
06/05/1947: Broken up at Stockton


Photographed during WW1, with Robinson Tug Funnel. Photo copyright RC Clifford

Photographed at Whitby in c1905. Photo courtesy of the RNLI Museum