Name: | TRITON |
Launched: | 15/12/1883 |
Completed: | 15/12/1883 |
Builder: | Cox & Co, Falmouth |
Yard Number: | 15 |
Dimensions: | 75gt, 20nrt, 84.7 x 16.3 x 9.3ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (16 & 30 x 21ins), 40nhp |
Engines by: | Cox & Co, Falmouth |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 86130 |
History: | |
15/12/1883 | Falmouth Fishery Co Ltd, Falmouth |
23/01/1884 | Registered at Falmouth |
1893 | Falmouth Towage Co Ltd, Falmouth |
17/01/1899 | William Black, John W Adamson, James Westoll et al, Sunderland |
1899 | Registered at North Shields |
1901 | Alfred B Atkinson, William Black et al, Sunderland |
1903 | The Anchor Steam Tug Co Ltd (AB Atkinson, manager), Sunderland |
07/1920 | France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1922 | John Davies, Cardiff |
05/1930 | Broken up |
Comments: | 16/05/1910: Sank near the Black Middens after a collision with HMS VIKING |
On a pleasure cruise with a party of tug company employees | |
22/05/1910: Raised by the Tyne Improvement Commissioners | |
Subsequently repaired and returned to service |
Cory's SIR FRANCIS being lead through the Tyne swing bridge by TRITON. Photo courtesy of David Asprey
TRITON in France, Fenwick's original colours, before the anchor was added. Photo courtesy of Danny Lynch
Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times, Saturday, 22/12/1883