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Name: TYNE DOCK NO 2
Launched: 18/12/1865
Completed: 1866
Builder: Richard Stobbs, Coble Dene, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 108grt, 40nrt, 87.0 x 19.0 x 9.2ft
Engines: L2cyl (25 & 25 x 41.75ins), 42nhp
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: Unregistered; (1881: 81973)
History:
1866 Tyne Dock Co, Newcastle
27/05/1881 Transferred to North Eastern Railway Co, York; registered at South Shields
1891 Joseph Lawson & Ralph Hodge, South Shields; renamed CHAMPION
03/1895 Transferred to Lawson Steam Tug Boat Co Ltd, North Shields
13/02/1902 Sank
Comments: 13/02/1902: Foundered 7 miles off the entrance to the River Tyne


Above photo as CHAMPION is copyright of South Shields Libraries

Shields Daily News, Friday, 14/02/1902