Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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No.: |
120 |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1860 |
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Description: |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
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Tonnage: |
480 |
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Length: |
200 |
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Width: |
22 |
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H.P.: |
125 |
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Type: |
Iron, two-cylinder oscillating engine |
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Customer: |
Isle of Man SP Co. |
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Fate: |
Foundered on 3rd December 1909 in bad seas off Liverpool Bar. |
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Date of Launch: |
10th April 1860 |
Notes:
Mona's Isle was the first Tod & Macgregor ship to use oscillating machinery. She had a raked stem, two masts and a single funnel abaft the paddles.
In 1883 she was converted to twin screw, with a straight stem, and compound engines provided by the Barrow firm of Westray, Copeland & Co. She was renamed Ellan Vannin; being Mona's Isle translated into Manx. She was then put on the Ramsey-Liverpool mail service. A further twenty six years of service followed, terminating in the total loss of the ship and personnel during a gale off Liverpool Bar on the 3rd of December 1909.
This was the only peace-time disaster, involving loss of life, which has befallen the company throughout its history; the name Ellan Vannin is one of the few that the Company has never repeated.
[West Coast Steamers, Duckworth & Legmuir]
