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Name: FLYING SQUIRREL
Launched: 05/04/1886
Completed: 06/1886
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 130
Dimensions: 131grt, 14nrt, 108.5 x 18.5 x 9.7ft
Engines: SL1cyl (36 x 54ins), 80nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 93269
History:
04/06/1886 Clyde Shipping Co; registered at Glasgow
04/10/1895 James Waterson; registered at Belfast; renamed STORM LIGHT
23/11/1898 Sank
Comments: 23/11/1898: Wrecked at Carlton Dog Rocks, 6 miles south of Girvan, Ayrshire
Captain George McGugan and crew rescued
Wreck subsequently sank