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Built for and operated by Morris Munro & Co. and
registered at Greenock. She is a contemporary of their other
steam lighters "Faun".and "Sylph"
Morris Munro & Co were coal merchants who had the
contract to supply MacBrayne's steamers, taking cargos of coal
from Ayrshire to, mainly, Oban. Return trips were often
made profitable by them bringing slate back from the quarries
on Luing, Easdale and Belnahua to meet the demands of the
tenament builders in
Glasgow.
In 1905 her registration was
transferred to Alloa on the Forth in the ownership
of Robert Wilson of Stirling.. Between 1915 and 1920
she was owned by J.L.Cochrane of Newcastle and in 1923
waas sold on to Grays Wherries Stevedoring Co, also of Newcastle.
Records cease after
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