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Name: WESTON
Type: Steam Lighter
Launched: 04/09/1875
Completed: 11/1875
Builder: JT Eltringham
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 45
Dimensions: 166grt, 103nrt, 107.6 x 20.3 x 8.3ft; (1889: 166grt, 94nrt)
Engines: L2cyl (16 & 16 x 18ins), 25nhp; (1889: C2cyl (18 & 29 x 18ins), 39nhp)
Engines by: Pattison & Atkinson, Newcastle; (1889: Same manufacturer)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 69401
History:
10/11/1875 Bristol & Exeter Railway Co; registered at Bristol
01/02/1876 Great Western Railway Co Ltd, Paddington
1884 George G Mackay, Grangemouth; registered at Middlesbrough
by 1887 William T Mackay, Middlesbrough
1889 Joseph Sharp, Douglas; registered at Douglas
No later history known
Comments: 1889: Engine compounded
1896: British register closed