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Name: LINESMAN
Launched: 15/02/1911
Completed: 03/1911
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 271
Dimensions: 96grt, 4nrt, 85.2 x 18.1 x 10.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (15.5 & 32 x 21ins), 55rhp, 350ihp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 132238
History:
03/04/1911 T Gray & Co Ltd; registered at Hull
15/04/1921 United Towing Co Ltd, Hull
1962 Broken up
Comments: 13/03/1915 to 06/07/1915: On Admiralty service
1915 to 1919: On War Office, Inland Water Transport Directorate, service as HS 1
1962: Broken up in Rotterdam
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details


Above: LINESMAN in colours of T Gray & Co. Photo is courtesy of Mike Patterson

Above: LINESMAN in colours of United Towing Co. Photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photograph is courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photograph is copyright of Charlie Hill

Newcastle Journal, Friday, 17/02/1911