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Name: MINER NO 13
Launched:
Completed: 1880
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Yard Number: 410
Dimensions: 50grt, 4nrt, 65.2 x 15.0 x 7.7ft; (1907: 51grt 5nrt); (1914: 51grt 18nrt)
Engines: 2 x 2cyl, 23nhp, 180ihp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1907: 119904)
History:
1880 British Government - War Office
22/02/1907 George Y Keely; registered at South Shields; renamed MINER
03/1907 The Tyne Pilotage Commissioners, South Shields
1920 The Burntisland Shipbuilding Co Ltd; registered at Burntisland
1933 Broken up
Comments: Built for the War Office mining service
Used as a tender to the fixed defensive mining at Dockyards
Also used as light tugs
Thought to have become MINER but could be an earlier tug in the series
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo as MINER is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as MINER is courtesy of Kevin Blair