Name: | SHANNON |
Launched: | 31/01/1885 |
Completed: | 2/1885 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 186 |
Dimensions: | 139grt, 25nrt, 100.7 x 19.2 x 11.1ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (20.5 & 40 x 24ins), 70nhp |
Engines By: | A Shank & Sons, Arbroath |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 86653 |
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History: | |
1885 | Colonel Edward A Gore, Limerick; registered at Limerick |
1890 | Benjamin Nicholson, Gosport |
1890 | George A C Schenley, Hamble |
1891 | Richard Grech, Hastings & Dardanelles; renamed HARLEQUIN |
1896 | Alfred, William & Richard A Grech, Dardanelles |
1907 | Idares-i Mahusa, Istanbul; renamed GAYRET |
1910 | Osmanli Seyri Sefain Idarsi, Istanbul |
1927 | Broken up |
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Comments: | 1885: Designed to be a combined yacht and tug |
| 1914-18 Commissioned into Ottoman Navy as a minelayer |
| 1927: Broken up at Istanbul |