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Name: HOTSPUR
Launched: 1872
Completed: 02/1872
Builder: T Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 288
Dimensions: 103grt,16nrt, 97.4 x 18.1 x 9.2ft; (1881: 103grt, 8nrt); (1895: 109grt, 7nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (35 x 54ins), 45nhp
Engines By: T Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 65423
History:
03/04/1872 Robert Brotherick Avery; registered at North Shields
29/08/1872 John Steel, Glasgow
30/09/1872 Registered at Glasgow
1877 Restyled Steel & Bennie incorporating the Glasgow & Greenock Shipping Company
1903 Broken up
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