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Name: GREAT CONQUEST
Launched:
Completed: 1857
Builder: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 110grt, 26nrt, 98.0 x 18.4 x 10.4ft
Engines: 2 x SL1cyl (29.75 x 48ins), 60nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10098
History:
1857 Stephenson (Sr & Jr), William & John Chisholm; registered at Shields
1859 Stephenson (Jr) & William Chisholm, Liverpool
1860 Registered at Liverpool
1861 William Chisholm & Thomas Sockett, Liverpool
1893 John Renwick, Dublin
1899 Broken up
Comments: The Chisholms traded at Liverpool as "Mersey Steam Tug Co"
1892: WR Chisholm died and the GREAT CONQUEST was offered for sale by the executors.


Liverpool's Canning Half Tide Dock in 1880. Photo courtesy of Tim Nicholson

Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, 17/01/1893