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Name: AYRSHIRE
Launched: 1847
Completed: 01/1848
Builder: Thorburn & Grant, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 49grt, 15nrt, 66.6 x 13.1 x 8.1 ft; (1861: 44grt, 12nrt, 70.4 x 14.9 x 8.1ft)
Engines: 1cyl (26.5 x ?), 23nhp; (1861: 28nhp)
Engines by: JP Almond, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 10177
History:
17/01/1848 E Flinn, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
1860 Edward Flinn et al, Shields; registered at Shields
1863 Isabella Pringle, Sundeland; registered at Sunderland
1866 F Lamb et al, Sunderland
23/10/1867 Sank
Comments: 23/10/1867: Sank after a fire near Alloa


Glasgow Herald, Friday, October 25, 1867