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Name: TRANSIT
Launched:
Completed: 1864
Builder: T Hepple & Son, Low Walker, Newcastle
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 83grt, 47nrt, 99.5 x 18.0 x 7.8ft
Engines: 92nhp
Engines By: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 50024
History:
1864 Isle of Wight Ferry Co; registered at London
1865 Charles Lambert, London
1875 George Peter Hepple, South Shields
by 1882 Joseph A Platt, Marchington, Uttoxeter
1894 Registered at Leith
by 1896 David McGregor & Hugh Blaik, Leith
by 1904 David McGregor, Leith
No further history known
Comments: 1908: Register closed