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Name: UNITED
Launched:
Completed: 10/1873
Builder: James Jackson, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 87grt, 10nrt, 88.9 x 18.3 x 9.4ft
Engines: L1cyl (34 x 48ins), 38nhp
Engines By: Wear Engine Works, Sunderland
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 68899
History:
10/1873 John Morgan, George Brown et al, Sunderland
13/11/1873 Registered at Sunderland
05/1874 Richard McSheen, Grimsby
1876 Registered at Grimsby
1877 Richard Watnough, Grimsby
1886 Walter Cooper, Grimsby
1892 George EJ Moody, Cleethorpes
1894 Hewett Co Ltd, London; registered at Yarmouth
1904 Charles T Pannell, London
1905 Robert W Wheeldon & Thomas Commander, Hull (t/a City Steam Towing Co)
1905 Registered at Hull
03/1911 Sunderland Towage Co Ltd, (JE Dawson, manager), Sunderland
1918 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd, Sunderland
1919 Michael McKeown, Newcastle
1927 Broken up
Comments: 1897: Rebuilt.
1911: Cost £250
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details


Above photo is copyright of PN Thomas