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Name: SEAGULL
Launched: 30/04/1877
Completed: 06/1877
Builder: John Softley & Co, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 107grt, 47nrt, 121.0 x 19.4 x 7.7ft; (1887: 107grt, 28nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (35.5 x 54ins), 50nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76778
History:
06/06/1877 John Steel & Kenneth McCaskill; registered at Glasgow
1877 Restyled Steel & Bennie incorporating the Glasgow & Greenock Shipping Co
1890 Phoenix Co Ltd, Newcastle
1891 Hastings, St Leonards & Eastbourne Steamboat Co Ltd; registered at Rye
1896 Broken up?
Comments: Vessel was a sub-contract from Hepple & Co
1890: Converted to a passenger vessel
1896: British register closed & thought to have been broken up


Above photo is courtesy of Tom Lee

Glasgow Herald, Monday, 10/11/1890