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Name: TYNE DOCK NO 1
Launched: 1859
Completed: 11/1859
Builder: Edward Oliver, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 77grt, 82.0 x 19.1 x 9.8ft
Engines: L1cyl (24 x 42.5ins), 50nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: Unregistered; (1881: 81972)
History:
11/1859 Tyne Dock Co, Newcastle
27/05/1881 Transferred to North Eastern Railway Co, York; registered at South Shields
03/1890 Joseph Lawson, South Shields; renamed SCOTIA
03/1895 Transferred to Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co Ltd
02/1898 Broken up
Comments: 04/01/1898: Foundered whilst moored in Howdon Dock, River Tyne
Subsequently raised & broken up