Pallion - launch

Masters: 1880-83 W Skinner: 1885-86 HJ Hyde: 1887-91 B Weeks: 1892 CB Franks: 1894 F Evans: 189-96 JJ Snowdon: 1897 RP King.

South Durham Herald 15 March 1879:

‘Messrs William Gray & Co of West Hartlepool, launched a new iron, screw steamer on Saturday for the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co. Her dimensions are: length between perpendiculars, 255 feet 6 inches; breadth 34 feet 6 inches; & depth of holds 19 feet 9 inches & 24 feet 8 inches. Her gross tonnage is 1750 tons & her dead weight capacity 2350 tons. She will be classed 100 A1, the highest class at Lloyds having been built under the special survey of Captain Wright of West Hartlepool. Engines 150 hp by Messrs T Richardson & Sons of the Middleton Ironworks, Hartlepool. The new ‘liner’ is built with complete double bottom for water ballast, raised quarter, deck, long bridge, topgallant forecastle for crew, iron partition all fore & aft in the centre of the ship, which will effectually prevent grain cargo from shifting. She is also fitted with three powerful steam winches, steam cranes, steam windlass & all the latest improvements for the rapid loading & discharging of cargo. As she left the ways the vessel was christened, amid general wishes for her success, the Pallion by Miss Daley Young, the fair young godmother being assisted by her three little sisters Eleanor, Gwendoline & Maud, the daughters of Captain WJ Young, JP. The Pallion, we may add, takes her name from the seat near Sunderland of Captain Young’s father, in, law, Christopher M Webster Esq.’

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