Builders: Messrs Napier
Propulsion type: Paddle, oscillating
Owners: Robert Napier, A & T McLean, J & G Thomson
Service dates: 1854 - 1879
Tonnage: Gross
Comments:
As can be seen from the above picture, this steamer's top deck offered little protection from the elements for passengers or crew. Even at the time of her construction her boilers were old fashioned, being of the square variety, but she was popular on the 7.20 am run from Rothesay to the Broomielaw, where she arrived at 1.00 pm. She was skippered by Capt. Sandy McLean and stewarded by his brother, who purchased the vessel from Napier in 1864. Due to declining fortynes, the paddler was sold again in 1872 to the shipbuilders, J & G Thomson, who used her to convey their workers from the Broomielaw to their new shipyard at Clydebank. She was surplus to requirements when the new railway opened and she was scrapped in 1879.