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Name: NORTHUMBRIA
Launched: 01/04/1893
Completed: 1893
Builder: John Lindsay, St Anthony’s, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 81grt, 16nrt, 87.4 x 19.0 x 9.8ft; (1903: 29nrt); (1914: 36nrt)
Engines: C2cyl (14 & 28 x 20ins), 35nhp, 130ihp
Engines By: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 102034
History:
1893 Richard Irvin; registered at North Shields
1897 The Irvin Steam Fishing Co Ltd, North Shields
1908 Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields
05/1915 Charles Hardy & William Lowery, Hull
11/1915 John Page Jr, London
1917 War Office, Inland Water Transport Directorate as HS 61
No further history known
Comments: 1893: Used as a drifter and a tug
29/07/1915 to 06/08/1915: On Admiralty service