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Name: CHURRUCA
Type: Tug / Dredger
Launched: 04/12/1880
Completed: 04/1881
Builder: Osbourne, Graham & Co
Yard: North Hylton, Sunderland
Yard Number: 46
Dimensions: 158grt, 107nrt, 104.6 x 23.4 x 8.6ft
Engines: CI2cyl (13.5 & 25 x 27ins), 30nhp; (19xx: T4cyl ( 11.5, 19, 22.5 & 22.5 x 25in), 96nhp)
Engines by: Hawks, Crawshay & Sons, Gateshead; (19xx: Osborne, Graham & Co, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79248
History:
13/04/1881 Jacob Forrest, Mold, Flintshire
1895 Benjamin Smith, Portugalete por Bilbao, Spain
1897 Jean le Guillou, Nantes; renamed STAGNO
1924 Ackermans & van Haaren, Le Havre; renamed TRAMONTANE
by 1930 Soc Anon Hersent, Le Havre
1934 Broken up
Comments: Hull sub-contracted from Hawks, Crawshay & Sons, Gateshead
Initially for work at the port of Bilbao