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Name: LANCELOT
Launched: 19/12/1905
Completed: 1906
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 241
Dimensions: 71grt, 4nrt, 75.0 x 17.6 x 7.9ft
Engines: C2cyl, 50nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 123255
History:
1906 Ouse Navigation Trust, York; registered at Hull
1907 York Corporation, York
1947 Peter Foster & Company Ltd, Hull
03/1961 United Towing Company Ltd, Hull
1962 Broken up
Comments: 10/12/1917 to 12/05/1919: On Admiralty service at Scapa Flow
1962: Broken up by Arie Rijsdijk-Bos & Zonen at Hendrik Ido Ambacht


Above photo of LANCELOT in York Coporation colours courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photo of LANCELOT in Peter Foster colours courtesy of George Robinson

1952 bringing KIRKELLA down the River Hull from Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley

As here, they often had to do it over two tides and sit aground between.

Photo courtesy of Alan Hughes.