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Between 1766 and 1780 the Admiralty had 25 vessels of her class built to a design by Sir John Williams. She is notable for being the first only Royal Navy warship constructed in both Leith and Scotland during the 18th century.
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The list of ship launches in 1827 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1827. Date Country ... Leith: John and Margaret: Schooner: For William Ross.
The most notable ships built in Leith are the SS Sirius, one of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic, and SS Copenhagen, one of the largest rigged ships ever built. Robb's yard also made a great contribution to the RN and MN during the Second World War, building forty-two vessels for the Royal Navy, fourteen merchant ships and refitted ...
In 1823 the adventurer and fantasist Gregor Macgregor chartered Skene, John Wilson, master, to take 105 (or 109 [7] emigrants from Leith to Poyais, the colony in Honduras that he was promoting. He had already dispatched Honduras Packet and Kennersley Castle. Skeen left Leith on 4 June with the settlers, together with stores and merchandise. [7]
SS Hornby was a tug tender which was based at Liverpool.She was built by John Cran & Co. at Leith, and launched on 22 January 1908. [2] She became known for her assistance of the RMS Titanic, the ill-fated British ocean liner, following her launch from the Harland and Wolff slips on 31 May 1911.
SS Sirius was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship built in 1837 by Robert Menzies & Sons of Leith, Scotland for the London-Cork route operated by the Saint George Steam Packet Company. [1] [2] The next year, she opened transatlantic steam passenger service when she was chartered for two voyages by the British and American Steam Navigation ...
[5] [6] Dibbs is listed as the master of the Rothiemurchus, a ship rated at 322 tons owned by John Watson & Co, Leith, in March 1818. The Rothiemurchus made trips to Quebec in 1816 and 1817 (John was probably 1st officer), again in March 1818, and was wrecked in September 1818 [ 7 ] [ 8 ] in the Baltic on her way in ballast to St. Petersburgh ...