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Name: SNOWDROP
Launched: 1866
Completed: 06/1866
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 77grt, 20nrt, 82.0 x 18.1 x 9.2ft
Engines: L1cyl, 34nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 54858
History:
06/06/1866 John Wilkinson, Edward Patterson, Preston Wood, and
Thomas & Robert Briggs, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1870 John Wilkinson, Sunderland
1872 Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle
1886 Lambton Collieries, Sunderland
1891 George Lambton (Earl of Durham), Lambton Castle
189X Earl Grey & Charles Barrington, Sunderland
1894 John Coulson & John Coulson Jr, South Shields
1897 Broken up
Comments:


Above photo is courtesy of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society

Above photo showing tugs SNOWDROP, ARIEL & MYSTERY (L-R) is courtesy of Eddie Frost