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Name: LADY TYLER
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 12/01/1880
Completed: 20/05/1880
Builder: T & W Smith, Limekilns Shore
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 69
Dimensions: 995grt, 563nrt, 261.0 x 30.2 x 13.8ft
Engines: 2 x C3cyl (33 & 44, 44 x 60ins), 340nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: Paddle, 13.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81172
History:
03/1879 Great Eastern Railway Co, Harwich
1893 Earl's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Hull
1897 Renamed ARTEMIS
1900 George Sandford, Kent
1955 Broken up
Comments: 1880: Operated the Harwich to Rotterdam service
25/05/1895: Operating on the Liverpool to Isle of Man service
27/07/1895: Withdrawn from the Isle of Man service
03/1900: Converted to a coal hulk at Gravesend
Thought to have been broken up in about 1955


Above photo as LADY TYLER courtesy of Photoship

The Marine Engineer, August 1880