Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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Yard No.: |
152 |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1872 |
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Description: |
Paddle Steamer |
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Webpage: |
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Picture: |
in West Highland Steamers |
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Tonnage: |
497¹ |
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Length: |
211¹ |
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Width: |
24¹ |
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H.P.: |
200 |
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Type: |
Iron, steeple engine 2 cylinders two funnels |
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Customer: |
Larne & Stranraer Steamboat Company |
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Fate: |
Wrecked on Sheep Island, Port Ellen, Islay in 1902 |
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Date of Launch: |
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Notes:
The Larne & Stranraer Steamboat Company obtained their first steamer, the Princess Louise from Tod & MacGregor, for the Larne-Stranraer route. She was an iron two-funnelled flush-decked paddler of 500 gross tons. She had a two cylinder engine with cylinders measuring 54in by 60in, the boiler pressure being 35lb per square inch, giving a nhp of 200.
She went into service on 1st July 1872 and remained with the company until 1890, when she went to the David MacBrayne fleet.
When at Larne she generally took two and three quarter hours for the thirty-five mile crossing to Stranraer, being well abreast of her time; the owners were proud of her speed. She was briefly chartered to run the Weymouth to Cherbourg route.¹
In 1878 she was re-boilers and had an increased boiler pressure, which considerably increased the horse power.
David MacBrayne acquired her in 1890, changed her name to Islay, and used her on the Glasgow-Islay run until she was wrecked on Islay in 1902.
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill] [Railway & other Steamers, Duckworth & Legmuir]
¹[West Country Passenger Steamers, Farr]
[Cross Channel & Coastal Paddle Steamers, F. Burtt]