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Name: SNOWDON
Launched: 03/01/1885
Completed: 03/1885
Builder: Lawson & Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 2
Dimensions: 106grt, 11nrt, 96.0 x 18.7 x 9.4ft
Engines: 2 x L1cyl (27 x 48ins), 50rhp, 200ihp
Engines By: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 80242
History:
19/03/1885 Portmadoc Steam Tug Co, Portmadoc; registered at Caernarvon
11/1900 John Dry & T Robinson; registered at South Shields
05/1908 John Dry Steam Tugs Ltd, South Shields
08/1929 Redhead & Dry Tugs Ltd, Newcastle
09/1938 RL Cook Towage Co Ltd; registered at Sunderland
11/1947 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Newcastle & Sunderland
09/1949 Broken up
Comments: 09/1949: Broken up by RB Harrison at Bill Quay


Above: Dry's PRINCE (outbd) and SNOWDON (inbd) at South Shields in 1910. Photo is copyright of South Shields Central Library

Above photo of SNOWDON when operated by RL Cook Towage Co is courtesy of Eddie Frost

Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette, Thursday, 22/09/1949