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Name: HECTOR
Launched: 1870
Completed: 08/1870
Builder: Thomas Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 90grt, 13nrt, 88.0 x 17.5 x 9.0ft
Engines: SL1cyl (38.75 x 50ins), 35nhp; (1888: SL1cyl (33 x 50ins), 35nhp)
Engines by: Thomas Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 62590
History:
08/09/1870 Samuel Emmott, Sunderland; Thomas Roe Thompson, Cardiff & Robert Pilley, London
08/09/1870 Registered at Sunderland
17/10/1871 James Finch, Cardiff
1875 Robert Lee, Cardiff
1879 John M Scott, Sunderland; renamed JOHN M SCOTT
by 1882 Thomas M Scott, Sunderland
20/08/1888 William Park Snr & Jnr and Christina Park Greenock; also Duncan McKellar, Glasgow
20/08/1888 Registered at Greenock; renamed COMMODORE
1908 Broken up
Comments: Initially used as an excursion tug in the Bristol Channel
17/10/1871: Sold at auction
06/1888: Engine modified
08/1908: Sold for breaking up at Dumbarton