Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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Yard No.: |
24 (estimated) |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1842 |
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Description: |
Paddle Steamer |
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Tonnage: |
500 |
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Length: |
166.6 |
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Width: |
30.8 |
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H.P.: |
250 |
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Type: |
Iron |
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Customer: |
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Fate: |
1870 |
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Points of Note: |
Built for Ardrossan & Belfast route |
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Notes:
The first steamship owned by the North Lancashire SN Co was the iron-hulled Prince of Wales. She was built in 1842 for the company's Fleetwood-Ardrossan service. In March 1843 she opened the Belfast-Fleetwood-Ardrossan service. In March 1843 she opened the Belfast-Fleetwood route and for the next seventeen years was regularly employed on it.
In the early 1860s she was chartered for a few weeks on both the Belfast-Liverpool and Belfast-Ardrossan routes and in 1863 was chartered by the Great Eastern Railway for the opening of the Harwich-Rotterdam service, fore-runner of today's Harwich-Hook route. After this she returned to Belfast and worked to Silloth until 1865. In her early days she was a popular excursion steamer.
In June 1849 she and the Adrossan steamer Fire Fly went on what must have been, with two steamers, a monster excursion to Rathlin. In July of the same year she acted as flag-ship for the Belfast Harbour Commissioners at the opening of the Victoria Channel.
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]