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Name: UNITED SERVICE
Launched: 14/09/1871
Completed: 01/1872
Builder: CW Dodgin & Co, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 107grt, 23nrt, 98.6 x 19.1 x 9.8ft
Engines: SL1cyl (35 x 48ins), 44nhp
Engines by: TR Scott & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 65415
History:
29/01/1872 Archibald Grant, Thomas Hunter, Thomas Charlton & Matthew Robson, North Shields
29/01/1872 Registered at North Shields
28/03/1872 William Harrison; registered at Yarmouth
1872 Great Yarmouth Star Steam Tug Co Ltd, Yarmouth
1881 Great Yarmouth Steam Tug Co Ltd, Yarmouth
1920 Great Yarmouth Steam Tug Co Ltd, Yarmouth
1940 Broken up
Comments: 1920: Owners in liquidation and sold to a new company of the same name


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