| Name: | Pontoon Hospital |
| Type: | Floating isolation hospital |
| Launched: | 02/08/1886 |
| Completed: | 02/08/1886 |
| Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Bill Quay |
| Yard Number: | 3 |
| Dimensions: | 140.0 x 70.0 x 6.0ft |
| Engines: | Non-propelled |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | n/a |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 1886 | River Tyne Port Sanitary Authority |
| 1930 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 02/08/1886: Launched as a completed structure & towed to its berth at Jarrow Slake |
| The base consisted of 10 wrought-iron cylindrical pontoons, | |
| each 72.0ft (long) x 6.0ft (diameter), with hemispherical ends | |
| They were connected by 7 wrought-iron girders each 140.0ft (long) by 12.0ins (deep) | |
| Cost of pontoon £8060, Three wards £2110, Dredging & Mooring £530. | |
| Total cost of £5700 or £190 per bed. |
Above photo copyright of South Tyneside Library
Docked for maintenance on Smith's Dock No 8 Pontoon. Photo courtesy of Terry Summerson
Being towed away for scrap. Photo copyright of South Tyneside Library