Challenge’s Specification

Length overall: 108ft

Length between perpendiculars: 100ft

Beam: 26ft 3ins

Draft: 14ft

Displacement (dry): 239

Displacement when full: 404 tons

Fuel capacity: 110 tons of oil was 100 tons of coal before 1964

Water capacity: 16 tons aft, 12 tons fwd and 8 tons in boiler feed tanks.

Crew: Master, First Mate, Chief Engineer, Second Engineer, two Stokers, two deck hands and one cook.

Accommodation: Two cabins forward for the Master and Chief Engineer. One cabin aft for other seven crew.