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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| FLYING METEOR |
44797 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1862 |
28/06/1862 |
04/09/1862 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tug
| Composite Paddle Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow |
Castle Yard |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 118 grt / 40 nrt / |
111.6 ft |
18.6 ft |
9.1 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Blackwood & Gordon, Paisley |
| Engine detail |
| L1cyl (39” x 56”) 60nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Kidston & Whyte (Clyde Shipping Co) - mng J P Kidston, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
04/09/1862 |
| Other names |
| 1864 ATHLETE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 10/1863 Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Paris, France - reg St Nazaire |
| Vessel history |
25/10/1863 arrived St Nazaire from the Clyde - reportedly the first tug owned by CGT and the first tug at Nantes/St Nazaire
11/1864 British registry closed |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
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Unknown |
| Disposal Detail |
| No details found post 1890. |
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