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Name: SAILOR
Launched:
Completed: 1862
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 79grt, 25nrt, 86.6 x 17.5 x 9.2ft
Engines: SL1cyl (32 x ?), 34nhp
Engines By: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 43909
History:
1862 Great Yarmouth Standard Steam Tug Co Ltd; registered at Yarmouth
by 1888 Thomas Aitken, South Shields
1890 John P Sleightholm, South Shields
1890 John Lang
No later history known
Comments: 1890: Legal dispute between Aitken & Sleightholm
28/08/1890: Sold at auction for £135


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 25/08/1890

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 28/08/1890