The steamship GLENCOE (Official No. 58,851) was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey by Backhouse, Middlesbrough, and was launched in August 1867. 185 / 299 / 280 tons (net / gross / under deck); 144.7 x 22 x 13.2 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold); 3 masts (schooner rigged), 1 deck, raised quarter deck 20 tons; 3 bulkheads; double bottom 71 3/4 ft long; screw propulsion. Her engines are described in the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register for 1867/68 through 1881/82 as 60 hp (1867); 180 hp (1871); direct action, 2 cylinders, 32 1/2" - 24", 65 hp, by Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton (1874); inverse, 2 cylinder, 32 1/2"- 24", 65 hp, by Blair & Co (1876); and compound inverse, 2 cylinder, 19" & 36" -24", 50 hp, by Blair & Co (1879).

The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register for 1867/68 through 1881/82 (the last to which I have direct access) provide the following additional information on the GLENCOE:

Master:
     1867/68-1869/70 - Longstaff
     1869/70-1870/71 - Pearson
     1871/72-1876/77 - D. Thompson
     1874/75-1875/76 - W. Austin
     1876/77-1881/82 - N. Muttitt

Owner:
     1867/68-1871/72 - Gillan & Co
     1871/72-1881/82 - Swan Bros, Swan & Bros, J. E. Swan & Bros Ltd
                          (from 1876/77)

Port of Registry:  Middlesbrough

Port of Survey:
     1867/68-1870/71 - Stockton
     1870/71-1871/72 - Hartlepool
     1871/72-1875/76 - Leith
     1876/77-1881/82 - Stockton

Destined Voyage (through 1873/74):
     1867/68         - Antwerp [crossed out]
     1868/69         - [not given]
     1869/70-1870/71 - Baltic
     1871/72-1873/74 - Middlesbrough

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey under which the GLENCOE was built is now held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (see in particular National Maritime Museum Research Guide H6, Lloyds: Lloyd's Register Survey Reports).