Builders: J T Eltringham & Co, South Shields 1892
Propulsion type: Paddle compound
Owner: Wm Watkins, Chas Pollard, H C Jones, Hastings St Leonards on Sea & Eastbourne Steamboat Co Ltd, Moville Steamship Co Ltd, Anchor Line (Henderson Bros.) Ltd, A W Hewett.
Service dates: 1892- 1933
Tonnage: Gross 225
Comments:
This much travelled little steamer was built for excursion work from Margate for the London tug owners Messrs William Watkins. Each winter, after the excursion season was over, she was laid up in the West India Docks. The short pleasure steamer season meant that she was not financially viable and she was sold for use in the North East. In 1899 she went to the South Coast, where this picture was taken. She was then sold again, this time for use between Londonderry & Moville undertaking passenger and cargo services for the next twenty years. In 1931 she was sold again for afternoon excursion work for one season only. In November of that year she was sold to her final owner for whom she made some excursion trips and acted as tender to the Cunard liners. She was wrecked in a severe gale in Dun Laoghaire Harbour in February 1933 and did not return to service. For a close up image of her in an as yet unidentified location please click here.
Thanks go to Terry Cooper for supplying the above picture.