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Name: FLYING ARROW
Launched: 04/02/1875
Completed: 1875
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 39
Dimensions: 123grt, 16nrt, 108.6 x 18.2 x 9.3ft; (1881: 8nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (36 x 54ins), 60nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 71699
History:
17/02/1875 Clyde Shipping Co, Glasgow (GJ Kidston, manager); registered at Glasgow
18/08/1881 JHW Culliford & J Siddell, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1886 Registered at North Shields
24/05/1887 Mrs Dorothy Anderson, North Shields
26/08/1889 Thomas Anderson, North Shields
1891 George R Anderson, North Shields
25/05/1903 George Thompson Pearson, Hartlepool
26/11/1903 Eusebius Derwent, Middlesbrough (t/a East Coast Tug & Lighter Co)
20/06/1904 James P Bell, Stockton
1906 ET Thomas, Stockton
No later history known
Comments: 1887: Converted to a trawler
1887: Assigned fishing registration number SN1 at North Shields
12/01/1903: North Shields fishing registry closed & reverted to a tug
1906: Reduced to a lighter