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Name: TREVOSE
Launched: 1881
Completed: 03/1881
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 88 (?)
Dimensions: 84grt, 27nrt, 87.9 x 17.1 x 8.8ft
Engines: SL1cyl (31.5 x 50ins), 60nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 83823
History:
21/03/1881 Charles O Young and John & Charles Christie; registered at Cardiff
05/1881 William H Townsend, East London, Cape of Good Hope
04/1885 James Coutts & George B Christian (Kaffrarian Landing & Shipping Co), East London
09/04/1886 Registered at East London, Cape of Good Hope
13/04/1892 Cecil Baker (United Boating Co), East London
07/01/1898 Albert L Kidd, Charles Coles & Charles Searle, Port Elizabeth
1901 Beira Boating Co, London
No later history known
Comments: 1901: Boiler removed and reduced to a barge at Beira, Mozambique
1905: Abandoned and left to rot at Beira
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Above photo is courtesy of David Asprey