Built by Blackwood & Gordon at Paisley, U.K. for George Laing Tod, Malta.
The Clyde built web-site gives she was built as a tug under the name SOUTH WESTERN.
Tonnage 210 gross, 127 net, dim. 42.27 x 6.13 x 3.08m.
Powered by 2-cyl 50 hp. steam engine, manufactured by Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees, single screw, speed 8 knots.
One deck, iron hulled.
1858 Completed.
1858/59 Sold to Treadder & Co., Cork.
04 December 1860, sold to the Handysides & Henderson, port of registry Glasgow, at this time the Anchor Line operated under that name, renamed DIDO. Later the name Anchor Line was more common.
Then together with the VOBORG, CORA LINN, ALISA CRAIG and LANCEFIELD in the weekly service from Glasgow to the Mediterranean.
The Anchor Line got a agreement in 1868 with the P & O and British India companies for the through forwarding of passengers and freight to India and Ceylon in connection with a monthly Anchor Line service from Glasgow to Alexandria.
November 1869 the DIDO was the first British merchant steamer to pass through the just opened Suez Canal from North to South.
12 July 1871 sold to James Luke, Dundee, not renamed. He was the middleman for the sale to the London & Edinburgh Shipping Co.
1872 Purchased by T. Aitken, Leith, he was the Chairman & Managing director of the London & Edinburgh Shipping Co., Leith.
1880 Sold to Brazil owners, then she disappears in history.
Yemen 1980 110f sg 237.
Source: Anchor Line by Duncan Haws. North Atlantic Seaways by N.R.P. Bonsor. Info received from John D Stevenson