| Name: | WESTSIDER |
| Launched: | 16/12/1963 |
| Completed: | 02/03/1964 |
| Builder: | Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd, Hessle |
| Yard Number: | s804 |
| Dimensions: | 151grt, 99.5 x 25.3 x 11.5ft |
| Engines: | Oil engine, 4SA, 6cyl (320 x 450mm), 1000bhp |
| Engines by: | Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Cologne |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw; Kort rudder |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 305422 |
| History: | |
| 01/1964 | Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd; registered at Newcastle |
| 01/1964 | Chartered to Tyne Tugs Ltd |
| 11/1983 | Transferred to Blyth Tug Co Ltd |
| 12/1984 | Transferred to Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd, Newcastle |
| 11/1985 | Chartered to Tyne Tugs Ltd |
| 04/1986 | Chartered to Tyne & Wear Tugs Ltd |
| 05/1989 | Clipper Cargoes Ltd, Anguilla |
| 199X | Merbach International, Belize |
| 199X | Jerry Steward (Tyrell Bay Yacht Haul-Out) |
| 2004 | Sunk |
| Comments: | 01/1964: Cost £91,000 |
| Spent periods of lay up in Sunderland in 1984/5 and 1987/8 | |
| 05/1989: Cost £46,000 | |
| 04/09/2004: Sunk as an artificial reef near Carriacou Island, Grenada |
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