Mona's Isle (1830)
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Mona's Isle
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| History | |
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 Isle of Man
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| Name: | Mona’s Isle |
| Owner: | 1830–1851: IOMSPCo. |
| Operator: | 1830–1851: IOMSPCo. |
| Port of registry: |
 Douglas, Isle of Man
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| Builder: | John Wood & Co., Glasgow. |
| Cost: | £7,052 |
| Yard number: | Not Recorded. |
| Way number: | Not Recorded. |
| Launched: | 30 June 1830 |
| Out of service: | 1851 |
| Identification: | No registration in existence at time of vessel's commission. |
| Fate: | Scrapped by Robert Napier & Co., Glasgow. |
| Status: | Scrapped. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Paddle Steamer |
| Tonnage: | 200 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 116 feet (35 m) |
| Beam: | 19 feet (5.8 m) |
| Depth: | 10 feet (3.0 m) |
| Ice class: | N/A |
| Installed power: | 100 shp (75 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Napier Side Lever Engine. Working at 15 pounds per square inch (100 kPa), developing 100 shp (75 kW) driving twin Paddle wheels |
| Speed: | 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) |
| Capacity: | 325 passengers |
| Crew: | 16 |
SS (RMS) Mona's Isle (I) was the first vessel ordered for service with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company when it began its operation in 1830. No Official number is recorded for the vessel, as formal registration was not introduced until the Merchant Shipping Act 1854.
Mona's Isle was a wooden paddle-steamer designed and built by John Wood & Co., Glasgow. She had no official yard number. Mona's Isle was launched by James Wood on Wednesday, 30 June 1830. She had a registered tonnage of 200 GRT; length 116 ft 0 in (35.4 m); beam 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m); depth 10 ft 0 in (3.0 m); speed 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph).
Her engine and boiler were by Robert Napier & Co., Glasgow, and attracted considerable attention as Napier's work was considered to be very advanced for its day. The boiler produced a steam pressure of 15 pounds per square inch (100 kPa), and the engine was one of the earliest examples of the side-lever type. It was really the familiar beam engine of the time, adapted for marine use.
Mona's Isle had bunker capacity for 35 tons of coal.
This design of side-lever engine became the most popular type of engine for marine purposes, and was adapted for use in oceangoing vessels until 1850.
Considered both fast and handsome, Mona's Isle was schooner rigged with a standing bowsprit. She was square sterned, carvel built, carried a female figurehead and her Mainmast stood at 70 feet (21 m).
She had a tall funnel amidships (standing at 56 feet (17 m) with a circumference of 12 feet (3.7 m)), and the Three Legs of Man was displayed on her paddle boxes. A further design feature, was her long bowsprit and clipper bow.
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