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Name: WATERSTON
Type: Tug
Launched: 21/01/1905
Completed: 07/1848
Builder: Thomas Anderson
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 51grt, 16nrt, 66.3 x 13.4 x 8.1ft
Engines: L1cyl (26 x ?ins), 23nhp; (1871: 20nhp)
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 14572
History:
28/07/1848 William Gibson, North Shields and Joseph & George Waterston, Swindon
28/07/1848 Registered at Shields
1858 EM Matthews, Shields
1872 Mrs Rachel Ramsay, Shields
1874 Thomas Watson, Shields
09/01/1885 Sank
Comments: 09/01/1885: Sank in the Tyne & subsequently broken up
Claimed to be the first steam trawler in 1877 - see report below


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 13/03/1858

Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 10/01/1885

Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 21/01/1885

Shields Daily News, Thursday, 10/11/1927