PS Pen Cw (1912)

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

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 registry:
Builder: Eltringham and Company, South Shields
Yard number: 291
Launched: 24 October 1912
Out of service: December 1962
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 168 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 105 feet (32 m)
Beam: 21 feet (6.4 m)
Draught: 9.4 feet (2.9 m)

History

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 £105,200 in 2019)[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
  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 2 February 2020.
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