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Built for the Leith, Hull and
Hamburg Steam Packet Co., owned by James Curry of Leith,
"X" was employed, as were most of their lighters, on the
transhipment of cargo along the Monklands and Forth and Clyde
Canals between Port Dundas in Glasgow and the ports on the
Firth of Forth. The photograph below is undated and
gives no hint of location although from the width of the
estuary it is more than likely the Clyde rather than the
Forth.
I dont know at this time how many of these alphabetically
named lighters that they owned, or even if the letters were
used in sequence - however, we know that there was a "Z" and so there could have been 26
although probably not all would have been
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