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Name: FLYING FOAM
Launched: 14/12/1876
Completed: 07/03/1877
Builder: Murdoch & Murray Ltd, Port Glasgow
Yard Number: 21
Dimensions: 126grt, 8nrt, 109.2 x 18.1 x 9.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (20 & 40 x 24ins), 70nhp
Engines by: Rait & Lindsay, Glasgow
Propulsion: Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76739
History:
07/03/1877 Clyde Shipping Co; registered at Glasgow
10/05/1889 Union Steam Towing Co Ltd, Belfast
20/03/1869 Sold by mortgagee to James Waterson, Belfast
11/1900 Lawson Steam Tug-boat Co Ltd, (J Lawson, manager), South Shields
1901 Registered at South Shields
24/08/1903 Wrecked
Comments: 24/08/1903: Wrecked on Whitburn White Steel near Sunderland
Subsequently declared a total loss


Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox