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Built as a paddle steamer by William Denny, Dumbarton for the La Platense Flotilla Co. of Glasgow.
18 June 1886 launched under the name EOLO. One sister the VENUS.
Tonnage 1.888 gross ton. Dim. 290 x 35 x 13½ft., draught 8½ft.
Accommodation for 244 first and 72 second class passengers.
Cargo space 26.870 cubic feet.
Clipper bow, two funnels and three masts.
Schooner rigged.
Triple expansion steam engine, 2.564 hp., speed 15 knots.

Paddy Henderson together with the yard of Denny built many flat bottomed ships for there Irrawaddy Flotilla Co., in Burma, and with this vessels she have a great success. And he and his partners thereafter would try their luck also on the rivers of Argentina and Uruguay. She founded the La Platense Flotilla Co.

She carried one 6pdr. gun. Fitted out with electric light and a piano.
Sailed from the U.K under her own steam to Buenos Aires for the service between that port and Montevideo. Sailed under English flag and registry the first years.

1892 Registered in Buenos Aires and under the flag of Argentina.

1896 Bought by Nicholás Mihanovich, Buenos Aires.
1904 She was rebuilt, and passenger accommodation reduced to 90 first class and 52 second. Most probably the third mast was also removed at that time. She is seen on the stamp with two masts.
She was used in this service till new steamers CIUDAD DE MONTEVIDEO and CUIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES replaced her in 1915.
From 1915 operated in the long service up the Parana and Paraguay rivers to Asuncion the capital of Paraguay.
1919 Under the flag of Uruguay.

19 September 1928 she sank by km 227 of the Parana River. The wreck is still there but when the river changed her course, she is now laying on dry land.

Uruguay 1994 4p80 sg 2177, scott 1544.

Source: Log Book July 1996 page 251. http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Foro/ForoBuqueBruselas.htm
Http://www.histarmar.com.ar/BuquesMerca ... E/Eolo.htm

(On page 126 of Log Book is also given some details of the EOLO but the details given must be of a complete different vessel.)