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Name: SCOTIA
Launched: 24/03/1868
Completed: 05/1868
Builder: Brodie & Maxwell, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 78grt, 15nrt, 82.6 x 17.5 x 9.2ft
Engines: SL1cyl (32 x 48ins), 34nhp
Engines by: W Scott, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 60484
History:
04/05/1868 Andrew Bain, Tynemouth; registered at North Shields
01/1873 William Williams, Newport
1879 John Robert Lawson & Joseph Lawson, South Shields
29/06/1884 Sank
Comments: 29/06/1884: Foundered 4 miles North of Scarborough, Yorkshire
On passage Scarborough to North Shields, with seven passengers. No lives lost
Thanks to David Asprey & John Evans for the above details