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Name: FLYING SCUD
Launched:
Completed: 11/1877
Builder: Neath Abbey Iron Works, Neath
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 74grt, 16nrt, 83.4 x 17.1 x 8.4ft
Engines: L1cyl (31.5 x 50ins), 35nhp
Engines By: William Scott, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 70512
History:
11/1877 Rosser Rosser, Swansea; registered at Swansea
1892 George Shallcross, Dundee
1895 William Leask & William Hay, Peterhead; registered at Peterhead
1917 John Carr Coulson & The Robinson Tug Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
1918 The Coulson Tug Co Ltd, South Shields
1925 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd
1929 Broken up
Comments: Engine was second-hand, manufactured in 1863
1892: Allocated fishing registration number DE48 at Dundee
6/10/1917 to 27/10/1917: On Admiralty service


Above photo courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo is copyright of Dundee Central Library

Above photo is copyright of Dundee Central Library