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Name: ELY
Launched:
Completed: 1858
Builder: TD Marshall, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 60grt, 10nrt, 80.4 x 16.0 x 9.0ft; (1865: 69grt, 9nrt); (1871: 80.4 x 16.7 x 9.0ft)
Engines: SL1cyl (34.5 x 46ins), 35nhp
Engines By: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 19371
History:
1858 Bute Dock Steam Towing Co, Cardiff
1864 The Cardiff & Penarth Steam Towing Co Ltd, Cardiff
1867 Thomas Winmill, Cardiff
1870 John L Jones, Cardiff
1872 James P Rennoldson, South Shields
1873 William Bulmer & William Parkinson, Middlesbrough; registered at Middlesbrough
1877 William Runcy, Sunderland
1879 Registered at Sunderland (SD 251)
1884 William Gunn, Granton; registered at Granton (GN 3)
1891 Broken up
Comments: 03/06/1886: Ran aground to the West of Inchkeith. Towed off by ONWARD (LH 88)


Above & below: The Bristol Mercury, Saturday, July 6, 1867