| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Dunoon Castle Steamboat Co, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1831 ??
1832 Castle Steam Packet Co, Glasgow
1842 Glasgow Castle Steam Packet Co, Glasgow
1846 Thomas Brownlie and Glasgow & Liverpool Steam Shipping Co - mng G & J Burns, Glasgow
1851 Michael McLachlan, Glasgow
2/1851 W Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
1851 Glasgow & Lochfine Steam Packet Co, Glagow
1855 Michael McLachlan, Glasgow |
| Vessel history |
4/8/1826 builder's certificate Denny.
For Glasgow-Rothesay, Lochgilphead, Inverary services
3/2/1831 sold at auction for £2000 (INVERARY CASTLE and TOWARD CASTLE did not sell)
9/1831 collided with steamer CUPID
26/10/1836 caught fire during refit at Hunter's Yard (opposite Govan) and interior severely damaged, though engines were out of vessel
1847 chartered to Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Co - in service Glasgow-Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer, Campbeltown
18/6-7/1850 engaged on rescue and salvage services after loss of Burns' ORION
1852 on Glasgow-Inverary service
1/1855 on Glasgow-Oban service
5/1855 advertised by M McLachlan, Glasgow as starting Glasgow-Stornoway service
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| Remarks |
| On the same day Denny Senior supervised the launch of the DUNOON CASTLE and Junior the BELFAST. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1856 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
21/2/1856 ship's equipment, paddle wheels and fittings auctioned
8/4/1856 hull auctioned at Glasgow
1864 British registry closed as "wrecked off the West coast of Scotland several years ago" (no evidence for this found) |
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