Dalswinton Loch
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Dalswinton Loch
Image: © ronnie leask Taken: 13 Apr 1986
This unremarkable stretch of water deserves to be better known since it was here on 14/10/1787 that the worlds first steamship took to the water. Unnamed, it was built by Patrick Miller, (1731-1815) the landowner, & designed & engined by Wm. Symington (1763-1831).25 feet in length it was twin hulled with paddles between the hulls & achieved a speed of 5 knots. A number of notables were on board but surprisingly, since he was a tenant of Miller's & farmed across the River Nith at Ellisland, there is no mention of Robert Burns having been there. Nor did he mention it. Symington was later responsible for the world's first commercial steamship, the "Charlotte Dundas".
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Image Location
Latitude
55.143892
Longitude
-3.659572