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Name: DRUDGE
Type: Gunboat
Keel: 12/01/1887
Launched: 08/06/1887
Completed: 23/08/1887
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 504
Dimensions: 890disp, 125.0 x 35.2 x 12.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19.5 & 32 x 20ins), 300ihp, 52rhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Iron
Armament: Various
Reg Number: 92866
History:
23/08/1887 Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
28/02/1901 British Royal Navy
21/11/1916 Renamed EXCELLENT
26/01/1919 Renamed DRYAD
1919 Renamed DRUDGE
1920 Stanlee Shipbreaking & Salvage Co Ltd, Dover
1927 Middlesbrough Salvage Co Ltd, London
1933 North East Salvage & Shipbreaking Co Ltd, London
1937 Thomas Round & Sons, London
1946 Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd, London
1948 "Les Abeilles", Soc de Remorquage et de Sauvatage, Le Havre
1948 Renamed FRANCOIS QUERE
01/1969 Broken up
Comments: Built as a trials vessel for Armstrong's guns and mountings
Also used to carry waste slag from the iron works to be dumped at sea
1920: Converted for use as a salvage vessel
01/1969: Broken up at Quai du Rhin, Le Havre by Etablissements R Fablon


As fitted with a 9.2 inch mounting in 1907. Photo is copyright of National Maritime Museum

Above photo as EXCELLENT is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as EXCELLENT is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 09/06/1887