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Name: ALBATROSS
Launched: 04/04/1878
Completed: 05/1878
Builder: John Softley & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 139grt, 71nrt, 141.0 x 19.1 x 7.8ft; (1887: 157grt, 53nrt)
Engines: SL1cyl (40.25 x 54ins), 64nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 78609
History:
27/05/1878 John Steel, Glasgow & Kenneth McCaskill, Greenock; registered at Glasgow
1892 John Steel & David Bennie, Glasgow
1903 Steel & Bennie Ltd, Glasgow
1911 Broken up
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Derry Journal, Wednesday, 17/04/1878