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Name: FLYING EAGLE
Launched: 1877
Completed: 09/1877
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 65
Dimensions: 94grt, 14nrt, 90.4 x 17.8 x 9.2ft
Engines: L1cyl (32 x 50ins), 60nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76804
History:
14/09/1877 Clyde Shipping Co Ltd (George J Kidston, manager); registered at Glasgow
18/04/1884 Isaac W Laing; registered at Sunderland
16/05/1884 Isaac W Laing, Anthony Irwing, George J Kidston et al, Sunderland
25/11/1889 William Mitchell, Sunderland
1889 Eagle Trawling & Towing Co Ltd, Cardiff
19/09/1890 Duncan McKellar (t/a Greenock Towing Co), Greenock
25/11/1890 Renamed DAUNTLESS
1890 Registered at Greenock
1917 William Bow, Paisley (Thomas G Wilson manager)
1923 Broken up
Comments: 1889: Cost £1700