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