s.s. 'Jenny Otto' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Jenny Otto - 6th November 1880.

She was surveyed on the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building and Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. Henry T. Tyrrell. The vessel was a Screw Steamer of 1,451 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of London having been built by Richardson & Company of Newcastle during 1877. The survey was necessary following repairs due to 'Damage'.

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The s.s. Jenny Otto was lost when she ran aground on the 11th January 1899 at Coolernose Point, near Craster, Northumberland, when on passage from Palamos, Spain to Burntisland, with a cargo of cork shavings. A Board of Trade enquiry held at the Town Hall, North Shields a few days later concluded that an incorrect course had been set from Whitby and that the vessel was not navigated with proper seamanlike care. The certificates of competency for the Master, John Lewis, and Second Officer, Alfred Cowden, were suspended for four and two months respectively.