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Name: GEORGE C COATES
Launched: 02/10/1913
Completed: 1914
Builder: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 633
Dimensions: 39grt, 18nrt, 70.0 x 13.1 x 6.1ft
Engines: 29nhp, 12.0knots
Engines By: Shields Engineering Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 133553
History:
1914 The Tyne Port Sanitary Authority, Newcastle
1934 William Robson & Sons, Lemington-on-Tyne
No further history known
Comments: Built as a sanitary steam launch, she was converted to a tug by Robson & Sons


"The Coates" in the forground. Photo courtesy Eddie Frost