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Name: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Launched:
Completed: 18/10/1853
Builder: A Woodhouse, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 78grt, 29nrt, 80.0 x 15.0 x 8.9ft; (1861: 69grt, 20nrt, 83.3 x 16.2 x 9.4ft)
Engines: SL1cyl (32.5 x 42ins), 30nhp; (1861: 38nhp)
Engines By: JP Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10186
History:
18/10/1853 JP Rennoldson, South Shields; registered at Shields
1854 Clyde Shipping Co, Glasgow
11/1856 AG Kidston et al, Glasgow
09/1864 JP Rennoldson, South Shields
12/1864 Joseph Hazell, Cardiff
1865 Registered at Cardiff
1869 Broken up
Comments: 11/1856: AG Kidston & family purchased the Clyde Shipping Co
01/04/1864: Ashore at Gartsdyke Bay, Firth of Clyde. Subsequently refloated
09/1864: Sold to JP Rennoldson, South Shields as part payment for another tug