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Name: BOREAS
Launched: 1872
Completed: 06/1872
Builder: T Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 66grt, 7nrt, 82.4 x 16.8 x 9.2ft
Engines: SL1cyl (28.75 x 48ins), 27nhp
Engines By: T Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 65435
History:
10/06/1872 Edward Knox, Wallsend & Hannah Hepple, North Shields; registered at North Shields
06/11/1872 William Powell & Stephen L Francis, Swansea and William & Hannah Hepple, North Shields
1872 Registered at Swansea
1873 Charles O & William Rundle, Cardiff and Henry Rundle, Waterford; registered at Swansea
1876 David Wilson, Limekilns, Fife; registered at Bo'ness
1890 Elizabeth Wilson, Limekilns, Fife
1898 Broken up
Comments: 1898: Broken up at Bo'ness
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Western Mail, Friday, June 4, 1875