Smith's Docks No. 4

Last revised 25 July 2002
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SMITH'S DOCKS NO. 4

25.7.02: No sooner do I decide to give some pages a rest than I find something to update one of them! So, of course, I was doing a modicum of sorting out when I found the following print by John Clarkson taken in Middlesbrough Dock:

In the background is another of my favourites, the MAIHAR, and the bow of one the East Asiatic motorships.

This was the only view of this tug I had to offer you originally:

Well, this was identified as being No. 4 from a diminutive image on the original negative. She is shown here attending a launch from the Furness shipyard at Haverton Hill.

SMITH'S DOCKS NO. 4 (1916-197…): ON 136081 27grt 0nrt 50.1 x 14.1 x 6.4ft; blt 1916 Smith’s Docks Co, South Bank (Yd 613); eng C2cy d-a vert —“—“x—“ 21nhp Shields Engineering & DD Co, N Shields; 1915 (22 Nov) launched; 1916 completed for Smith’s Docks Co (reg Middlesbrough); 197… sold or scrapped.

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