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Name: SARAH JOLLIFFE
Launched: 14/08/1890
Completed: 09/1890
Builder: J Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 262
Dimensions: 299grt, 76nrt, 138.0 x 25.6 x 13.5ft
Engines: T3cyl, (17, 28 & 48 x 30ins), 126nhp, 700ihp
Engines By: J Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97815
History:
1890 Sarah A Jolliffe, Liverpool & John Woodburn, Windermere (t/a W & T Jolliffe)
1894 Sarah A Howard (née Jolliffe) & John Woodburn, Liverpool (t/a W & T Jolliffe)
1897 W & T Jolliffe, Liverpool
04/1908 W & T Jolliffe Ltd (Alexandra Towing Company Ltd, managers)
1920 Alexandra Towing Co Ltd
1924 Broken up
Comments: 10/10/1914 to 07/03/1915: Hired by the War Office
08/03/1915 to 13/01/1920: Hired by the Admiralty, as a dockyard tug
Towed monitors to East Africa to attack the German cruiser KONIGSBERG
1924: Broken up at Garston
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details


Above photo courtesy of Alfred Turner

Above photo copyright of WB Hallam