OLD PADDLE STEAMER.
After thirty years' service at various ports on the British coast as a pleasure steamer, tho paddle steamer Greyhound has passed into the hands of Turkish owners. Built by J. and G. Thomson, Clydebank, in 1895, ihe Greyhound had a gross tonnage of 556. I'or the greater part of her career she was employed at Blackpool, running to Morecambe and Llandudno. Two years a"O she was acquired by the Abercorn Steamship Co., Belfast, to restore the old Leilast-Bangor service, but two wet seasons, followed by'a disastrous explosion, led the owners (o decide to sell. The Greyhound is to bo employed by her new owners on tho ferry service between Constantinople and tho Princes Island m the Sea of Marmora.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 24
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OLD PADDLE STEAMER.
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 24
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