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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