s.s. 'Horseguards' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Horseguards - 13th September 1880.

She was surveyed upon the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building and Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. Henry T. Tyrell. The vessel was a Screw Steamer of 1,403 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Leith having been built by Aitken & Mansel & Company at the Jordanvale yard, Glasgow during 1872. The survey was necessary 'on account of damage through explosion of coal gas.'

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lower image  : An oil painting on canvas by an unkown artist depicting s.s. Horseguards of Leith at sea during a gale in the Bay Of Biscay in 1888. [002]