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Name: DUNERA
Launched: 14/12/1891
Completed: 05/1892
Builder: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Yard Number: 477
Dimensions: 91grt, 3nrt, 86.0 x 19.1 x 9.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 32 x 24ins), 80nhp
Engines By: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 99078
History:
05/1892 Gravesend United Tug Co; registered at London
1922 Coulson Tug Co Ltd, South Shields
03/1926 Blyth Tug Co Ltd, Blyth
1937 Renamed DUNERA II
12/1937 Broken up
Comments: Launched as SECRET
03/1926: Cost £2,000
1937: Renamed to free up the name DUNERA for the British India passenger ship
12/1937: Broken up by Clayton & Davie Ltd at Dunston; cost £300


Above photo is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich - Gould collection

Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair

In the colours of the Coulson Tug Co. Photo courtesy of Photoship