Flying Cloud SN
Built | 1866 Barclay Curle & Co Ltd Glasgow as "Diamond" (Iron) |
Yard No | 158 |
Owner at New | River Towing Co Ltd, Greenock (Andrew Orr & Others) |
ID no | 55444 |
Launch Date | 05.11.1866 |
Completed | 12.1866 |
Gross Tons | 61 |
Nett Tons | 6 |
Engine | 30 hp Side Lever L.1-cyl by Barclay Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 80.5ft |
Breadth | 15.2ft |
Depth | 7.4ft |
Owners | |
1867 | Owned by New York Owners (sale and re-purchase, via 'foreign' owners was merely a procedure to enable the name to be changed). |
1867 | Renamed "FLYING CLOUD" used as ferry/tug at Glasgow harbour. Struck pier at Helensburgh and sank, raised 11 days later and taken to Greenock for repair. |
1867 | Owned by Clyde Shipping Co Ltd, Glasgow (George J. Kidston manager) |
18.04.1868 | In collision with S.S. "Lady Brisbane" (151g/1852) both vessels sank and later both vessels raised and repaired. |
Undated | Converted to trawler. |
1877 | Owned by J. P. Rennoldson, South Shields. |
1878 | Owned by Barber & Chisholm ,North Shields. |
1878 | Glasgow registry closed. |
1878 | Registered at North Shields |
22.04.1879 | Returned to North Shields having lost her trawl on a wreck. |
1879 | Owned by Hugh Campbell, North Shields. |
09.12.1879 | Stranded on rocks on the East side of Inchcolm Firth of Forth. |
17.12.1879 | Wreck refloated and taken to Leith for repair (Robert Innes & Co Shipbuilders). |
29.06.1880 | Owned by Alexander Laing, Leith Edinburgh, bought at auction for £360. |
01.08.1881 | George Walker (engineer) died in Leith Hospital after falling into the paddle box while it was in motion. |
28.02.1888 | Offered for sale in the Scotsman at the Queens Dock Leith, Edinburgh owing to the death of the owner. |
1888 | Owned by O. T. Olsen, Stavanger Norway. |