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Name: PROMISE
Launched: 1869
Completed: 10/1869
Builder: CW Dodgin & Co, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 67grt, 9nrt, 78.1 x 16.7 x 9.2ft
Engines: SL1cyl, 29nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 60532
History:
21/04/1870 William Dodds, North Shields; registered at North Shields
by 1874 John Gibson Youll, Newcastle
1876 Walter Watts, Harwich
1877 John Mariott, Frederick Smith & George Smith, Wells
1888 John Hopper, Sunderland
1889 George Hands & George Wraith, Whitby
1892 George Wraith, Whitby
1905 Fergus Graham & Thomas Lynn, Newcastle
1905 Frederick Gray, Felling
1913 Alexander & William Brown, Byker
1917 John Tulip, Jarrow
1919 John, Francis, George & Elizabeth Kerr, Byker
07/09/1920 Sank
Comments: 07/09/1920 Sank after collision in River Tyne & total loss


Above: Inspecting reconstruction work on the Tyne North Pier 1906

Above photo is courtesy of the History of Wells - Wells Guide