Construction

Date 1811 - 1812

Event ID 1163068

Category Building History

Type Construction

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The PS Comet was a wooden hulled vessel originally built by John Wood and Company for Henry Bell in 1811 to 1812, and was 13.26 m (43 feet 6 inches) long with a 3.45 m (11 feet 4 inches) beam. It had an engine of 3, later 4 Nominal Horse Power (NHP) that was initially built by John Robertson for workshop use (Dalton 2020, 278).

Dalton 2020