| Name: | AUDREY |
| Type: | Passenger Ferry |
| Launched: | 01/05/1897 |
| Completed: | 1897 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 670 |
| Dimensions: | 203grt, 90nrt, 126.0 x 21.1 x 8.0ft |
| Engines: | CD2cyl (17 & 34 x 42ins), 60rhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 106616 |
| History: | |
| 08/1898 | Tyne General Ferry Co, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
| 1909 | City of Cork Steam Packet Co Ltd (Richard H Good, manager), Cork |
| 1911 | Registered at Cork |
| 1913 | Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway Co, Cork |
| 1914 | Capt Sydney J Shippick, Parkstone, Dorset; registered at Poole |
| 1915 | The Admiralty |
| 07/1922 | New Medway Steam Packet Co Ltd; registered at Rochester |
| 1929 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 1914: For service between Bournemouth, Swannage & Poole |
| 1915: For use as a ferry between Chatham & Kingsnorth | |
| 1922: Ferry from Rochester to Southend, Herne Bay, Margate & Ramsgate | |
| 1929: Broken up by TW Ward at Grays, Essex |
Above: Entering the Tyne, photo copyright of Newcastle City Libraries
Above Tyne General Ferry advert is copyright of A Reid & Co Ltd, courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above Tyne General Ferry advert is copyright of A Reid & Co Ltd, courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above photo courtesy of Simplon Post Cards
Above photo courtesy of Simplon Post Cards
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 03/05/1897