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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