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Name: MAID OF ORLEANS
Launched: 06/03/1855
Completed: 04/1855
Builder: Hepple & Landells, Whitehill Point, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 65grt, 19nrt, 77.9 x 14.7 x 8.7ft; (1856: 64grt, 16nrt, 80.6 x 16.5 x 8.7ft;
(1869: 64grt, 7nrt); (1882: 64grt, 4nrt)
Engines: L1cyl, 32nhp
Engines By: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 2040
History:
28/04/1855 John Rutter and John & Thomas Bewick, North Shields; registered at Shields
08/1856 James & Joseph McFarlane, Archibald Govan and John McAllister, Glasgow
1869 Registered at Glasgow
1872 John Duncan, Glasgow
1877 Dugald Campbell, Greenock
1879 Joseph O Robertson, Greenock
1884 Robert Mills, Greenock
13/02/1885 Sank
Comments: 13/02/1885: Foundered off Arran Island


North & South Shields Gazette, Friday, 09/03/1855