20/12/2025
One of my other hobbies is Boats (well model RC tugs specifically). Browsing ebay I stumbled across a painting which was the Eppleton Hall Tug sailing to America. She is the only intact example of a Tyne-built paddle tug, and one of only two surviving British built paddle tugs.
The most interesting bit and totally by coincidence is she was originally ordered by the Lambton and Hetton Collieries.
Eppleton Hall is a paddlewheel tugboat built in England in 1914. The only remaining intact example of a Tyne-built paddle tug, and one of only two surviving British-built paddle tugs (the other being the former Tees Conservancy Commissioners' vessel, PS John H Amos),[3] she is preserved at the San ...
