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Name: HETTON
Launched: 1870
Completed: 1870
Builder: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 62
Dimensions: 72grt, 7nrt, 83.0 x 17.0 x 9.1ft
Engines: 30nhp
Engines by: Readhead Softley & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 62586
History:
1870 Lindsay Wood, Sunderland
No further history known
Comments: Operated by the Hetton Coal Co for which Lindsay Wood was the MD
A Baronetcy was conferred on him in 1897
1900: Register closed


There were two tugs called HETTON and this could be either of them