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with two furnaces. A similar but oil-fired boiler replaced the original boiler in 1963. In 1980 this was also removed and the present two locally made small modern
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it is thought that she lifted 140 tonnes. In 2004, she lifted 100 tonnes to maintain her lifting licence of 80 tonnes. In 2009,
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