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Name: COMMODORE
Launched: 19/05/1864
Completed: 1864
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 114grt, 43nrt, 107.8 x 19.0 x 9.8ft; (1869: 30nrt); (1889: 21nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (38.5 x 56ins), 60nhp
Engines By: T Hepple & Son
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 49540
History:
09/1864 William Liddell, James Park & John Anderson, Greenock
02/1869 The United Steam Towing & Navigation Co Ltd, Greenock
1883 William Liddell, Glasgow; registered at Greenock
1888 Thomas & Daniel Dixon, Belfast; registered at Belfast
1895 Sold as a wreck
Comments: 22/12/1894: Sunk in Belfast harbour by the American ship KENNEBEC,
which broke adrift in a storm.


The Belfast News-Letter, Monday, May 20, 1895