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Name: ROSA
Launched: 12/01/1884
Completed: 1884
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 114
Dimensions: 165grt, 60nrt, 116.0 x 19.6 x 10.3ft; (1911: 156grt, 93nrt)
Engines: L1cyl (28 x 56ins), 48nhp; (1911: C2cyl (10 & 20 x 15ins), 50nhp)
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields; (1911: Alloa Dry Dock & Engineering Co Ltd)
Propulsion: Paddle; (1910: Sail); (1911: 1 x Screw)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 63728
History:
1884 WD Johnston & Sons Ltd; registered at Montrose
1910 James McLeod, Alloa; registered at Alloa
1911 Peter C McLeod, Alloa
1919 Reuben B Clark, London
No later history known
Comments: 1884: Allocated fishing registration number ME660 at Montrose
25/04/1896: Towed the disabled s/t MARE (1884, 165grt) ten miles into Montrose
17/03/1897: Towed the abandoned Norwegian brig TERRA NOVA into Montrose. Vessel had been drifting off the Kincardineshire coast after being abandoned on the 14th March off the May Island, Firth of Forth. Her crew had been taken of by a Leith bound steamer.
30/03/1899: Assisted the Norwegian brig ALPHA into Montrose as she was making water.
1910: Registered at Alloa as a sailing vessel
1911: Converted to screw propulsion & re-engined with an engine made in 1900
1924: Register closed
Thanks to Andy Hall for the above details