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Name: RESCUE
Launched: 30/04/1904
Completed: 06/1904
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 229
Dimensions: 357grt, 150.0 x 26.2 x 12.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (23.5 & 49 x 33ins), 180nhp, 920ihp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 111335
History:
14/07/1904 MH Bland & Co Ltd, Gibraltar
1951 Broken up
Comments: 1915: Requisitioned by Admiralty for service as salvage tug & balloon tender
1919: Returned to owners
1946: Bow altered and acommodation rebuilt
1951: Broken up at Malaga


Above: As built

Above: As a balloon tender

Above: As rebuilt in 1946

Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 05/07/1904