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Name: SAMSON
Year: 1881
Builder: L Tilkin & Co, Liege
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 119grt, 2nrt, 90.6 x 18.3 x 11.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (30, 35 x 22ins), 73nhp, 350ihp; (1923: C2cyl (18 & 36 x 22ins), 74nhp, 450ihp)
Engines By: L Tilkin & Co, Liege; (1923: Richardson, Westgarth & Co Ltd)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 134960
History:
1881 Soc Anon de Remorquage à Hélice (SARH), Antwerp
04/1913 Leonard Brown, South Shields; renamed SYMBOL
1914 Registered at South Shields
04/1915 Sunderland Towage Co Ltd
1919 TA Hughes & Co, London
12/1919 G Alder, Middlesbrough
1923 Renamed GRAYTHORPE
01/1930 AM Crosthwaite, Middlesbrough
01/1930 Transferred to Middlesbrough Towage Co Ltd (JW Nellist, manager)
08/1934 Broken up
Comments: 1894: new boiler
1905: new boiler
1915: Cost £2,300
09/1915 to 06/1916 Hired by the Admiralty
06/1916 to 1919 Hired by the War Office; renamed HS 37 for the duration
1923: Re-engined