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PS Pen Cw (1912)

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History
Name
  • 1912–1927: Pen Cw
  • 1927–1933: Ingleby Cross
  • 1933–1962: Elie
Operator
  • 1912–1927: Great Western Railway
  • 1927–1933: Tees Towing Company, Middlesbrough
  • 1927–1962: Grangemouth and Forth Towing Company
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderEltringham and Company, South Shields
Yard number291
Launched24 October 1912
FateScrapped December 1962
General characteristics
Tonnage168 gross register tons (GRT)
Length105 feet (32 m)
Beam21 feet (6.4 m)
Draught9.4 feet (2.9 m)

PS Pen Cw was a tug built for the Great Western Railway in 1912.[1]

History

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The Pen Cw was built by Eltringham and Company in South Shields and launched on 24 October 1912. She was used as a tug for tender operations at Fishguard Harbour.

On 1 July 1927 she was sold to the Tees Towing Company in Middlesbrough for £1,750 (equivalent to £131,900 in 2023)[2] and renamed Ingleby Cross. On 29 November 1933 she was sold to the Grangemouth and Forth Towing Company and renamed Elie. From November 1939 to February 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and used in Rosyth Dockyard.

In December 1962 she was sent to White and Co at St Davids on Forth for scrapping.

References

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  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.