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Name: No 8
Type: Mud Hopper
Launched: 28/08/1905
Completed: 09/1905
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 97
Dimensions: 516grt, 222nrt, 140.0 x 33.2 x 12.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (21 & 44 x 30ins), 106nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 119977
History:
09/1905 Cardiff Railway Company, Cardiff
1923 Great Western Railway Company, Cardiff
1934 HG Pounds, Portsmouth
1935 William Cooper & Sons Ltd, Liverpool; renamed SIFTER
1961 Broken up
Comments: 1935: Converted to a sand suction dredger
14/10/1961: Arrived at Passage West in tow of tug CLEDDIA
1961: Broken up by Haulbowline Industries Ltd