| Name: | HEATHER BELL |
| Launched: | 1857 |
| Completed: | 10/1857 |
| Builder: | Hepple & Landells, North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 82grt, 16nrt, 88.0 x 17.9 x 9.6ft |
| Engines: | L1cyl, 40nhp |
| Engines by: | Hepple & Landells, North Shields |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 20339 |
| History: | |
| 20/11/1857 | John Newton & Richard Taylor, Aberdeen and Robert Newton, Derwenthaugh; |
| 20/11/1857 | Registered at Aberdeen |
| 1871 | Richard Taylor, Aberdeen |
| 1882 | Helen Taylor, John Nicol Newton & Robert Newton, Aberdeen |
| 08/1889 | William Dawson Elliott, Hull; registered at Hull |
| 1892 | Arthur Dales Todd, Hull |
| 1894 | Arthur D Todd & Reuben Wilkinson, Hull |
| 1896 | Reuben Wilkinson, Hull |
| 01/1898 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 01/1899: Register closed |
| Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |

HEATHER BELL at a dock opening at Aberdeen on the 8th July 1885. Photo courtesy of T Norman Tait

With the 1852, Thames built, TRUE BRITON. Photo copyright Mike Taylor

The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday, March 28, 1860