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Old 26-06-2021, 07:11 PM
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Default A Hundred Years ago...or thereabouts

(9th June 1921 Blyth News)

BUILT AT AMBLE

Launch of a Ferry Steamer for Jarrow Corporation.

The first steel ship built at Amble was launched there on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering.
The vessel was the Jarrow, a twin-screw ferry steamer built to the order of the Jarrow Corporation, and it will ply between Jarrow and Howden, and will carry 650 passengers.
The vessel's dimensions are: 92ft. length p.b., 28ft breadth moulded, 38ft breath over sponson, and 10ft, 1½in. depth moulded. It will be fitted with twin screw triple expansion surface condensing engines.
The builders are the Amble Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., successors to the Amble Ferro Concrete Company, and have four other vessels in course of construction.
The site on which the new yard stands was the site of a shipyard of some 70 years ago when several wooden vessels were built.
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