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The Wherry was built by RB Harrison and Co Ltd at Bill Quay and launched on 16th August1939. A report in the Evening Chronicle on 19th August 1939 said the launch was the first for 25 years. She was owned by Vickers Armstrongs Ltd of Newcastle who sold her to N Keedy and Sons of South Shields around 1950 and was in service on the Tyne with them until the early 1970s. Keedy's donated the wherry to the Maritime Trust based at South Shields and she was transferred to Tyne and Wear Museums in 1976. After a proposal for a maritime museum at the former Leslie's Hebburn Shipyard fell through in the 1990s the wherry was moved to the Tyne and Wear Museum's store at Beamish Museum where she still remains not on public display.
Although this vessel is on the National Historic Fleet, we are currently lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, please contact us.
Built at Bill Quay, Tyne
Launched as a dumb (towing) wherry but soon fitted with a motor engine
Withdrawn from service
Purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum and maintained afloat in Princes Dock Liverpool
Kept at Tyne Dock before she was moved to Hebburn and then to the store at Beamish.
Entered on the National Register of Historic Vessels
Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, pp148, Edition 2, 1993
The last Tyne wherry - Elswick No. 2 Information Sheet
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