Name: | TA JOLLIFFE |
Launched: | 27/11/1901 |
Completed: | 1901 |
Builder: | JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 213 |
Dimensions: | 199grt, 14nrt, 113.0 x 23.7 x 12.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl, (15.5, 25 & 41 x 27ins), 99nhp |
Engines By: | JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 115238 |
History: | |
1901 | Sarah A Howard (née Jolliffe) & John Woodburn; registered at Liverpool (t/a W & T Jolliffe) |
04/1908 | W & T Jolliffe Ltd (Alexandra Towing Company Ltd, managers) |
08/1923 | Martin Constant; registered at London; renamed EASTLEIGH |
01/1924 | James Dredging, Towage & Transport Co Ltd, London |
11/1924 | Charles Roberts, Bristol |
11/1930 | Samuel & Thomas Henry Roberts, Bristol |
11/1936 | Charles Roberts & Sons Ltd, Bristol; (managed by Samuel Roberts, Sharpness) |
1947 | CJ King & Sons Ltd, Bristol |
1949 | Broken up |
Comments: | 12/08/1914 to 07/10/1914 Hired for Admiralty service |
Towed monitors to East Africa to attack the German cruiser KONIGSBERG | |
16/11/1914 to 08/03/1915 On War Office service | |
09/03/1915 to 14/02/1920 On Admiralty service | |
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details |
Above: In Jolliffe colours. Photo courtesy of Alfred Turner
Above: TA JOLLIFFE at Malta preparing to tow the monitors. Photo courtesy of Piet Van Damme
Above: TA JOLLIFFE armed for Admiralty service. Photo courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as EASTLEIGH courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo as EASTLEIGH courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo as EASTLEIGH courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo as EASTLEIGH courtesy of Alfred Turner