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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ROVER |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1836 |
06/1836 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Wood Paddle Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Wood & Mills, Bowling, |
Littlemill |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / 220 nrt / |
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| Engine builder |
Robert Napier & Sons, Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 130 hp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Glasgow & Londonderry Steam Packet Co |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| Ordered by Robert Napier. |
| Vessel history |
1836 Commenced service on the Londonderry route in September.
1838 On charter, sailed between Liverpool and Wexford.
1846 Transferred to the Sligo route.
1851 re-boilered by A. & J. Inglis, Glasgow. |
| Remarks |
| After the collision, the PRINCESS ALICE, an iron paddle steamer built by Tod & MacGregor with forty passengers aboard was able to proceed with her voyage. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1852 |
Collision 08/12/1852 |
| Disposal Detail |
In collision, off Bengore Head, with the Fleetwood steamer PRINCESS ALICE on 8th December 1852. With her bow ripped off she managed get ashore on the rocks where she later broke up. The crew and passengers were saved.
In July 1853 her machinery and boilers were advertised at Dunseverick for sale "as they now lie in the water". |
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