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Name: PRIDE O'SCOTLAND
Launched: 1871
Completed: 10/1871
Builder: Richard Stobbs, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 57grt, 5nrt, 76.4 x 16.0 x 8.5ft
Engines: SL1cyl (27.5 x 46ins), 24nhp
Engines By: Thomas Hepple & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 65413
History:
09/11/1871 Alexander Scott; registered at North Shields
17/12/1874 James Dykes; registered at Dundee
12/04/1875 William Hepple, South Shields
18/09/1875 John Gray, Peterhead; registered at Peterhead
1875 William McKinnon, Peterhead
1895 Ralph Robson, St Anthony's; registered at Newcastle
1911 Broken up
Comments: 21/02/1876: Severely damaged by fire


Above photos, showing PRIDE OF SCOTLAND behind PRINCE OF WALES, courtesy of Kevin Blair

Glasgow Herald, Tuesday, February 22, 1876

Extracts from the Dundee registration documents courtesy of Ian Buxton