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Name: ALPHA
Type: Launch
Launched: 03/03/1907
Completed: 1907
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 5nrt, 51.0 x 10.0 x 25.3ft
Engines: Oil engine
Engines by: Griffin Engineering Co, Bath
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
1907 Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
No later history known
Comments: An experimental yard craft and does not appear to have been registered
Depth looks suspect, but that is what is recorded in the TIC launch records


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