| Name: | FYLDE |
| Launched: | 17/01/1881 |
| Completed: | 02/1881 |
| Builder: | J Reid & Co, Port Glasgow |
| Yard Number: | 6Q |
| Dimensions: | 245grt, 4nrt, 122.4 x 22.5 x 10.8ft |
| Engines: | 2 x C2cyl (25 & 48 x 27ins), 98nhp, 850ihp |
| Engines By: | Rankin & Blackmore Ltd, Greenock |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 73764 |
| History: | |
| 02/1881 | Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western Railway Companies |
| 02/1881 | Registered at Fleetwood |
| 1904 | Liverpool Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as Respects Wrecked and |
| Damaged Property; "The Liverpool Salvage Association"; renamed PLOVER | |
| 1904 | Registered at Liverpool |
| 09/1909 | Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co Ltd; registered at South Shields |
| 06/1920 | Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd, South Shields |
| 04/1957 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 26/9/1914: On Admiralty service renamed PEEWIT |
| 8/3/1920: Returned to owners reverted to PLOVER | |
| 1/1953: Damaged when run down by BLENHEIM at Stanhope Buoys, South Shields | |
| 4/1957: Sold to BISCO - British Iron & Steel Corp for £4,500 | |
| 4/1957: Allocated to CW Dorkin & Co Ltd at Gateshead |
Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above: PLOVER and others towing HMS THUNDERER into Blyth for scrapping in 1927. Photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo courtesy of Eddie Frost
Above photo courtesy of Eddie Frost
Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo dated 1955 is copyright of Peter Ross
Above photo courtesy of Ron Henderson