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Name: MINER NO 2
Launched:
Completed: 1877
Builder: Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow
Yard Number: 339
Dimensions: 56grt, 7nrt, 65.3 x 15.0 x 7.8ft
Engines: 2 x 2cyl, 25nhp, 120ihp
Engines By: Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1904: 116199)
History:
1877 British Government - War Office
1904 Frank Bevis; registered at Portsmouth; renamed DRAGON
1912 Frank Bevis Ltd, Portsmouth
1924 Butcher & Sons Ltd, Heybridge, Maldon
1925 Broken up
Comments: Built for War Office Mining service
Tenders to fixed defensive mining at Dockyards
Also used as light tugs
This history as DRAGON may not apply to MINER NO 2
It is known that DRAGON was one of MINER NO 1, 2 or 3.
Thanks to David Asprey for these details