| 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