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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| EAGLE |
48931 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1864 |
25/04/1864 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Ferry Excursion Pleasure
| Iron Paddle Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow |
Overnewton |
27 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 108 grt / 81 nrt / |
219.5 ft |
20.2 ft |
7.3 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Finnieston Steam Ship Works Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
2cyl 103nhp
1876 re-engined by William King & Co, Glasgow
diagonal 1cyl 50x56in 85nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Capt. William Buchanan, Rothesay |
Glasgow |
06/06/1864 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1891 George Buchanan, steamboat master, Glasgow.
1894 Manchester Ship Canal Passenger Steamer Co.
1898 sold for £805.00 and in that year owned by The Eastham Ferry and Pleasure Gardens & Hotel Co, Liverpool.
03/1899 sold at auction by Kellock for £640.00 Buyer was John S. Turnbull, Glasgow for breaking up. |
| Vessel history |
1866 lengthened by 16 ft abaft the paddle wheels. Tonnage became 209 gross. 30/03/1866 trial voyage from Bridge Wharf to Greenock, Garelochhead, Lochgoilhead, Rothesay and home.
1881 tonnage 46.74nt. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1899 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| 1899 sold for scrapping |
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Eagle with deck saloon.
Image courtesy of : Graham Lappin
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