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Name: FLYING HUNTSMAN
Launched:
Completed: 1881
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 90
Dimensions: 172grt, 39nrt, 122.2 x 20.1 x 10.7ft; (1889: 184grt, 49nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (41 x 60ins), 98nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84307
History:
1881 Clyde Shipping Co; registered at Glasgow
02/03/1885 Limerick Towing Co (Sir James Speight, manager); registered at Limerick
10/07/1889 Cornelius Morley, Portlaw, Co Waterford
30/10/1891 Waterford Steam Ship Co, Waterford
1907 Limerick Towing Co, Limerick
02/05/1910 Limerick Steamship Co Ltd, Limerick
10/1912 Broken up
Comments: 10/1912: Sold for breaking up at Boulogne, France


Above photo copyright of the National Library of Ireland, courtesy of Peter Dockerty

Above photo copyright of the National Library of Ireland