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Name: VICTOR HUGO
Launched: 16/07/1885
Completed: 10/1885
Builder: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Yard Number: 397
Dimensions: 28grt, 0nrt, 60.7 x 13.1 x 6.4ft
Engines: 2cyl (12 & 12 x 14ins), 30nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89119; (1910: 43598); (1931: P.5979)
History:
14/10/1885 William Hepple, North Shields; registered at Swansea
10/1885 David Bevan, Swansea
1888 J Bouché, Rouen; registered at Rouen
18xx Renamed DUQUESNE
22/11/1910 Registered at St Valéry sur Somme
1913 E Prat Fils Ainé, St Valéry sur Somme
by 1931 Raymond Dercq, Mohon, Morbihan; renamed VICTOR HUGO
No later information known
Comments:


Above photo as DUQUESNE is courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo as DUQUESNE is courtesy of David Asprey