Category:President (tugboat, 1876)

Source: Tyne Tugs and Tug Builders

Ship[edit]

• Construction: Iron
• Builder: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
• Yard Number: 124
• Launched: 03/08/1876
• Completed: 08/1876
• Length:30.4 m
• Beam: 6.8 m
• Draught:3 m
• 130grt, 26nrt
• Engines: SL2cyl (30 x 52ins), 70rhp, 420ihp
• Engines By: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
• Propulsion: Paddle

• Reg Number: 86652

History[edit]

• 08/1876 Named: PRESIDENT for Limerick Towing Co, Limerick
• 1891 George Brown et al, South Shields
• 07/1923 Owner restyled Brown Tug Co Ltd
• 1930 Transferred to France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd
• Some time before 1936 she was altered from a twin-funnel to single funnel
• 02/1959 Sold to BISCO for £600 and allocated to Thomas Young & Sons (Shipbreakers) Ltd, Sunderland