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Name: LORD LYONS
Launched: 1867
Completed: 01/1868
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 94grt, 6nrt, 90.6 x 18.2 x 9.3ft
Engines: SL1cyl (33 x 38ins), 40nhp
Engines by: T Hepple & Son
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 58542
History:
20/01/1868 Robert Seaton et al, Queenstown; registered at Cork
04/1876 William Liddell, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow
03/1884 Queenstown Towing Co Ltd (Robert Seaton, manager), Queenstown, Co Cork
1885 Registered at Cork
26/03/1886 Clyde Shipping Co, Glasgow
1887 JP Rennoldson, South Shields
26/06/1890 William Chisholm, North Shields; registered at South Shields
29/10/1894 Coulson Douglas, Sunderland
18/05/1897 Wrecked
Comments: 18/05/1897: Stranded at the entrance to South Dock, Sunderland
08/1897: Raised & sold as a wreck for breaking up
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details


Above photo, showing LORD LYONS in the centre, is courtesy of Anthony Renton

Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 21/08/1897