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Name: FLYING SCOTSMAN
Launched: 13/09/1886
Completed: 11/1886
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 133
Dimensions: 131grt, 14nrt, 108.0 x 18.6 x 9.9ft
Engines: SL1cyl (36 x 54ins), 80nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 93334
History:
18/12/1886 Clyde Shipping Co; registered at Glasgow
03/02/1897 City of Glasgow Towing Co, Glasgow & Greenock (Alexander McKinnon, manager)
03/02/1897 Renamed CHAMPION
28/10/1910 John McKinnon, Greenock & Thomas C Wilson, Glasgow
10/06/1912 Gragemouth & Forth Towing Co Ltd; registered Grangemouth
06/07/1916 Renamed RUNNER
03/1927 Broken up
Comments: 03/02/1897: She was bought as a replacement for CHAMPION ex FLYING JAVELIN (1882)
28/10/1910: Ownership transferred on the death of Alexander McKinnon
13/07/1914 to 27/10/1919: On Admiralty service on the Firth of Forth
03/1927: Broken up by P McLoed at Alloa