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Name: LADY VITA
Launched: 31/10/1882
Completed: 12/1882
Builder: Westwood, Baillie & Co, Poplar, London
Yard Number: 168
Dimensions: 163grt, 53nrt, 107.7 x 20.1 x 10.4ft; (1915: 174grt, 11nrt)
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (31 x 57ins), 75nhp
Engines by: J Stewart & Son, Blackwall Iron Works
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79377
History:
12/1882 Dover Harbour Board, Dover
13/01/1883 Registered at Dover
1914 JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
02/11/1914 Tees Tug Co Ltd (WH Crosthwaite, manager); registered at Middlesbrough
16/12/1914 Renamed LINGDALE
20/07/1920 Tees Towing Co Ltd (Robinson & Crosthwaite, managers), Middlesbrough
1949 Managers became Wm Crosthwaite & Son
05/05/1954 Broken up
Comments: 1914: Presumably purchased as part payment for LADY DUNCANNON
01/04/1915: On Admiralty service at Malta
01/02/1920: Returned to owners
05/05/1954: Sold to JJ King & Co Ltd for breaking up at Gateshead
One engine is preserved at Beamish Museum, County Durham


Above photo as LADY VITA is courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photo as LADY VITA is copyright of the Dover Harbour Board Collection

Above photo as LINGDALE is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as LINGDALE in 1928 is copyright of W Haig Parry

Above photo as LINGDALE is copyright of PN Thomas

Above photo showing one of LINGDALE's engines is copyright of Chris Allen