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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