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Name: TERRIBLE
Launched: 02/04/1865
Completed: 09/1865
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 155grt, 63nrt, 117.5 x 19.3 x 10.6ft; (1878: 181grt, 86nrt, 129.8 x 19.4 x 10.7ft)
Engines: 70nhp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 49787
History:
15/09/1865 Joseph Ostens, North Shields; registered at Shields
1866 United Steam Towing & Navigation Co Ltd, Greenock
1869 Northern Lighthouse Board; registered at Greenock
1882 Farquhar M McLarty, Greenock
by 1888 William W Bird Jnr, Guernsey
1898 Charles C Duncan, Yarm; registered at Middlesbrough
No later history known
Comments: Engines probably by the shipbuilder
1878: Rebuilt
1881: Broke from moorings in Erraid Sound, Mull. Driven ashore & became total loss
1897: Register closed. Presumably sold for breaking up but then resold
1903: Register closed