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Name: WAVE OF LIFE
Launched: 1860
Completed: 06/1860
Builder: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 77grt, 22nrt, 87.1 x 16.9 x 9.6ft; (1873: 87.1 x 16.9 x 9.3ft)
Engines: SL1cyl (31 x 48ins). 35nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Landells, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 28619
History:
18/06/1860 William R Chisholm, Stephenson Chisholm Jr, William White and Thomas Lockett, Liverpool
18/06/1860 Registered at Liverpool
1861 S Chisholm Jnr et al, Liverpool
21/10/1862 Portmadoc Steam Tug Co ( Griffith Griffiths, Portmadoc, manager)
21/10/1862 Registered at Caernarvon
07/08/1872 John Lakey Snr & Jr and John Walker, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1873 William Liddell, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow
07/09/1876 Robert McCracken and Charles McCoy, Newry; registered at Newry
10/1881 Joseph Lupton Jnr, Newry
01/1882 Broken up
Comments: 22/12/1873: Boiler explosion on the Clyde
21/09/1881: At auction stated to be 31.5 x 40ins cylinder
26/11/1881: Struck by Glasgow steamer CELT at Warrenpoint - paddlebox damaged and alleged paddle-shaft displaced
01/1882: Wrecked and subsequently broken up
Thanks to David Asprey for the above details


Glasgow Herald, Tuesday, 23/12/1873