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Loading at the Jetty

Loading at the Jetty

Seen here, the SS Northgate at Skinningrove jetty with the cranes busy at her side. The details that follow are from the ‘Tyne Built Ships List’:

Name: NORTHGATE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/04/1925
Completed: 05/1925
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 539
Dimensions: 425grt, 155nrt, 144.9 x 25.2 x 11.7ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 36 x 27ins), 77nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135610
History:
18/05/1925 Pease & Partners, Stockton-on-Tees
1933 Free Trade Wharf Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
1938 Bristol Sand & Gravel Co Ltd (FE Peters), Bristol; renamed GARTH
26/11/1946 Sank
Comments: Specially designed for carrying pig iron & travelling under low bridges
1938: Converted to a sand dredger
26/11/1946: Fouled anchor chain of another vessel in Redcliffe Bay & sank on a voyage from Cardiff to Avonmouth
Additional details courtesy of Eric Johnson and Terry Shaw.

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