Name: | PEARL |
Launched: | 1858 |
Completed: | 10/1858 |
Builder: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 72grt, 17nrt, 86.0 x 16.7 x 8.8ft; (1869: 72grt, 8nrt) |
Engines: | L1cyl, 40nhp |
Engines by: | |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Wood |
Reg Number: | 21571 |
History: | |
05/11/1858 | John Hendry, Alexander Ferguson, William Lethuin(?) & Andrew R Orr, Greenock |
05/11/1858 | Registered at Greenock |
12/1867 | Graham Brymner (Clyde Shipping Co) , Glasgow |
07/1868 | JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields |
25/11/1868 | Robert Redhead & William Gray, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
13/10/1873 | Unknown owner; registered at Boulogne |
1875 | Société Anonyme de Remorquage au Port de Calais (E Mullard, manager) |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 1858: Trading as River Towing Co (despite press cutting below) |
13/06/1859: Boiler burst at Greenock. One crew member died | |
11/08/1859: Damaged in a collision with IONA, subsequently repaired | |
07/1868: As part payment for new tug FLYING SPRITE | |
07-09/1875: Surveying for French investors proposing a Channel Tunnel | |
1876: Reported in service at Boulogne |
Greenock Advertiser, Saturday, 13/08/1859