| Name: | VICTOR |
| Launched: | 03/1870 |
| Completed: | 04/1870 |
| Builder: | JP Rennoldson, North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 116grt, 32nrt, 105.9 x 19.3 x 9.6ft |
| Engines: | L1cyl (37 x 50ins), 60nhp |
| Engines by: | JP Rennoldson |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 58868 |
| History: | |
| 12/04/1870 | Enoch Halder, South Shields; Alexander Petrie, Stockton; John Robinson, Middlesbrough; |
| and Joseph Adimson, Tynemouth (John Robinson, manager); registered at Middlesbrough | |
| 04/1873 | John Gardiner McCormick, Dublin; registered at Dublin |
| 12/1873 | Robert Redhead, Newcastle; renamed LIVERPOOL |
| 04/1874 | Registered at Newcastle |
| 09/1875 | Walter J Watts, Harwich; registered at Harwich |
| 06/1877 | Henry Booker & Ann Errington, Hull; registered at Hull |
| 08/1888 | John F Ealand, Hull |
| 06/1890 | Broken up |
| Comments: | In December 1875 the Harwich tug LIVERPOOL rescued all 173 passengers and crew |
| remaining alive on the wrecked Norddeutscher Lloyd passenger ship DEUTSCHLAND which had been wrecked on the Kentish Knock Sands the previous day after going significantly off course in heavy gales and blizzards. | |
| Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |
The rescue of the remaining passengers & crew by the LIVERPOOL. Image courtesy of David Asprey
Landing the survivors of DEUTSCHLAND at Harwich. Image courtesy of David Asprey