Three-masted schooner rigged trans-atlantic paddle-steamer built of wood by Messrs Black and Campbell, Quebec, to the plans of James Goudie. Her dimensions were 160'×44'×17'75, and tonnage 1370 GRT and 363 tons burthen.
1830 September
The keel was laid at Cape Cove.
1831 April 27
Launched.
1833 August 18
Left Pictou harbour, Noca Scotia, and reached Gravesend, September 12, after 25 days under sail and steam. Her master was Captain John McDougall.
1834 September
Sold to the Spanish Navy and converted to a warship and renamed Isabella Segunda.
1840
When at Bordeaux for repairs she was found to be rotten and was converted into a hulk.
Select Bibliography
Spratt, H. Philip: The Transatlantic PS Royal William (1831). The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 34 (1948), pp 56-57.
Campbell, Archibald: The Royal William, the pioneer of ocean steam navigation. Trans. Lit. Hist. Soc., Quebec, N.S., No. 20, 1891.
Ker, Robert: The Pioneer of Atlantic steamships.
Canadian Magazine, May 1907, p 13.
Wurtële, F.C.: SS Royal William, the pioneer of transatlantic steam navigation. App. G, Report of Secretary of State of Canada for 1894, Ottawa, 1895. p 60.
Wood, William: The record-making Royal William. Canadian Geographic Journal, August 1933.
Updated 1995-03-18 by
Lars Bruzelius