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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ORION |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1847 |
19/12/1846 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger
| Iron Paddle Steamer 3 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
Cartsdyke West |
14 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 899 grt / 460 nrt / |
210.6 ft |
27.1 ft |
18.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
Side paddle, 2 Cylinder side lever engine 14" x 81", 460nhp, 1120inp
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| G & J Burns Ltd Glasgow - Glasgow & Liverpool Steam Shipping Co. |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1850 |
Wrecked 18/06/1850 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 18/6/1850 Stranded on a reef near Portpatrick. 41 lives lost including Dr John Burns, a brother of the owners and Regius Professor of Medicine at Glasgow University. Thomas Henderson of later Anchor fame was the master. |
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