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Name: PEN CW
Launched: 24/10/1912
Completed: 12/1912
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 291
Dimensions: 168grt, 69nrt, 105.1 x 21.1 x 9.5ft
Engines: 2 x D1cyl (28 x 48ins), 68nhp, 400ihp
Engines by: Baird Bros, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135172
History:
11/12/1912 Great Western Railway Co; registered at London
01/07/1927 Tees Towing Co Ltd ( Robinson & Crosthwaite, managers), Middlesbrough;
1927 Registered at Middlesbrough; renamed INGLEBY CROSS
29/11/1933 Grangemouth & Forth Towing Co Ltd
1933 Registered at Grangemouth; renamed ELIE
12/1962 Broken up
Comments: An unusual design in that the funnel was forward of the paddle boxes
1927: Purchase price £1,750
11/11/1939 to 04/02/1942: On Admiralty service at Rosyth dockyard
12/1962: Delivered to JA White & Co at St Davids-on-Forth for breaking up


Above photo is courtesy of James Pottinger

Above photo taken at Methil in August 1962 is copyright of James Pottinger

Above image is copyright of PN Thomas