s.s. 'North Devon' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for North Devon - 2nd August 1880 - page 1 of 2.

She was initially surveyed by Mr. A. E. Keydell following repairs in the old dry dock at Newport which were required on account of damage sustained in consequence of grounding in the river ??? on the 5th July 1880 whilst on a voyage from Bilbao to Newport. Mr. Keydell also records that a new Bower Anchor was supplied.

The vessel was an iron screw steamer of 730 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Belfast having been built by Schlesinger, Davis & Company at their Wallsend yard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was launched in November 1878 and handed over to her owners, H. Vellacott & Sons of Cardiff during 1879. [102]

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