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Name: HELMSMAN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/04/1903
Completed: 05/1903
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 112
Dimensions: 458grt, 207nrt, 150.0 x 25.0 x 10.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (13.5, 22 & 36 x 27ins), 75nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118279
History:
05/1903 C Rowbotham, London
1914 C Rowbotham & Sons, London
1925 Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle renamed CRAGSIDE
1935 Renamed CRAG
Q3/1935 Broken up
Comments: Q3/1935: Broken up at Gateshead by JJ King & Co


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 23/04/1903