History: She was ordered for Glasgow-Sligo service but sold clandestinely before completion in 1863 to Henry Lafone, Liverpool on behalf Confederate Government Treasury Dept. for the Confederate Navy. She was used as supply ship to CSS Shenandoah, when she carried armaments and crew for commissioning of Shenandoah at Islas Desertas, Madeira on 18–20 October 1864. Laurel ran the blockade, arriving Charleston on 1 December 1864. However, the CS Navy found her unsuitable, because her 11.6-knot actual top speed was too slow and 11 feet with only 500 bales was too deep draught for the Cape Fear entrances.^[3] Thus she was purchased by the Treasury Department and renamed Confederate States, carrying a cotton cargo via Nassau to Liverpool, where she was laid up and sold in April 1865 to Goole Steam Shipping Co Ltd (John Moody & Richard Moxon), Goole.
Lengthened and re-engined by Martin Samuelson & Co at Hull in 1869.
1882 sold to Peter Hutchison, Glasgow.
1887 sold to unknown owner in Bordeaux. 1888 Peter Hutchison, Glasgow. Sank on 28 November 1905 in Le Havre Roads after collision with SS Gregory (Booth Line).^[4]

Sold in 1880 to Newcastle Steamship Co, Newcastle, NSW
Sold in 1891 to Newcastle & Hunter River Steamship Co
Sold in 1911 to J. & J. Daley, Sydney. Scuttled off Sydney Heads on 21 March 1925.

Built to replace a twin funnelled Tyneside built Waverley of similar type she proved too big for this run. Thus sold in 1868 to London & South Western Railway for Southampton/Channel Islands service. Wrecked on 5 June 1873 in fog on Platte Boue Rock, Guernsey, all saved.^[5]

Later sold to Southampton owners. Scrapped in 1902.^[6]

Hulked at Shanghai in July 1912, later towed to Wuhu. Hulk seized by Japanese in 1941 and towed to Shanghai. Bombed and sunk by Allied aircraft in 1942.^[7]

Towed to Shanghai 1907 and converted to hulk and moved to Hankou as transhipment godown.
Transferred to Shashi in 1930, and to Yichang in 1938. Destroyed by American bombing during WW2.^[8]

Withdrawn in 1912, scrapped in 1914 at Preston, Lancashire.

Sold in 1926 to Channel Islands Packet Co., Jersey. Broken up at Borrowstounness, Q2/1929.^[9]

History: British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow & London, 1922 Soc.d'Avances Commerciales, Alexandria
Sunk on 4 April 1922 shortly after being sold, so soon she had not yet been renamed, 70 miles NE of Derna on a voyage from Alexandria to New York City^[15]

Launched on 20 October 1888.^[17]

Used from 1915 to 1919 as a patrol vessel by the Royal Navy
Sold in 1920 to G. C. Dracoulis, Ithaca, Greece and renamed Ithaki. Bombed and sunk on 20 April 1941 at Suda Bay, Crete.^[18]

Scrapped in 1912.

With single diagonal steam engine and a haystack boiler she achieved a speed on trials of 18.1 knots. She was used for the Craigendoran to Rothesay service of the North British Steam Packet Company.
Her tonnage was increased to 279 tons in 1910 and then to 293 tons in 1919. She became minesweeper HMS Talla during the First World War.
She was scrapped by TW Ward at Barrow in 1934.^[19]

The vessels were named after places in Scotland, the native homeland of Sir Robert Gillespie Reid, founder of the Reid Newfoundland Railway Company. The ships were employed as coastal vessels to service the remote communities of the island and the coast of Labrador to operate a mail and passenger service to those communities. Lost off Louisburg, Nova Scotia on 4 March 1911. She was replaced by the SS Bruce II.^[20]

After 1939 she no longer carried passengers.
Sold 1948 to Metal Industries Faslane, who used her as an accommodation ship. Not broken up until 1950.
Scrapped in 1950.^[21]

She was commissioned because of the success of PS Talisman as a similar ship. Despite her old fashioned single diagonal machinery she achieved 18.6 knots on her trials and this was more than acceptable. She joined PS Talisman on the Craigendoran to Rothesay service and in doing so replaced Redgauntlet, who was then used as an excursion steamer.
She was refurbished and reboilered in 1915 and saw limited war service between 1917 and 1919 as a minesweeper on the South Coast. Upon her return in 1919 she reopened the Arrochar excursion service.
She continued for the North British Steam Packet Company and later for the LNER until withdrawn in the summer of 1937 and was broken up the following year by her original builders A. & J. Inglis, in the yard where she had been built.^[22]

In 1924 she was sold to Fratelli Beraldo, Genoa and renamed Operosita.
In 1928 she was acquired by SA Marittima San Pietro, Genoa, renamed Carmine Filomena and used as an Italian passenger/cargo steamer.
On 2 July 1937 she ran aground on Lundy Island when outward bound from Cardiff for Genoa with a cargo of coal.^[23]

Sold for scrap in June 1959 at Sorel, Quebec.^[20]

Sold to the S.S. Argyle Steamship Co. in 1941. Lost near Cuba on 31 July 1946.^[20]

Stranded and lost on Grassy Island near Carmanville, Newfoundland 25 December 1919.^[20]

Lost on 11 December 1919 at Martin's Point, Bonne Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador.^[20]

Lost at Twin Islands, Strait of Belle Isle, Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland & Labrador on 17 November 1900 on her maiden voyage.^[20]

Stranded at Jersey Harbour, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador on 18 November 1952.^[20]

Purchased by the Admiralty post-war and used as a floating laboratory in Portland Harbour, Dorsetshire.
Scrapped at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1958.^[25]

Sold in 1916 to M F Plant, then to the Imperial Russian Navy in 1917 and renamed Poryv.
Sold in 1919 to Baron de Linder and renamed Finlandia.
Sold in 1925 to Montague Grahame-White and renamed Ianara.
After a further sale in 1935, the ship was scrapped in 1938.

Later sold to Bay Steamers Ltd, Melbourne. To United States Army in 1942 and then the Australian Government in 1945.
Scrapped in 1951.^[26]

Requisitioned in 1940 by the Italian Navy.
Seized by the Kriegsmarine in September 1943. Renamed Innsbruck and used as a hospital ship.
Sunk on 10 June 1944 in an air raid at Venice but raised and repaired. Returned to Tirrenia SA di Navigazione in 1946.
Scrapped in Palermo in January 1964.^[27]

Sold in 1942 to Compania Argentina de Navegación Dodero.
Sold in 1949 to Compania de Navegación Fluvial Argentina.
Sold in 1961 to Flota Argentinade Navegación Fluvial.
Sold in 1976 to Ferroductil, Buenos Aires.
Scrapped in 1972 but not deleted from shipping registers until 1982.^[28]

Requisitioned by the Admiralty 20 November 1915 as an auxiliary minesweeper.^[30] Sunk 7 March 1919 by a drifting mine^[31] in the North Edinburgh Channel north of Thanet.^[32] 23 men were lost^[31] and 28 survivors rescued.^[33]

History: Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft.
1921 Argentina Cia de Naveira, Buenos Aires.
1923 Cia Uruguaya de Nav, Montevideo.
1941 Cia Argentina de Nav Dodero.
1949 Cia de Navegacion Fluvial Argentina.
Sold to Buenos Aires breakers in April 1966 and scrapped in April 1966.^[34]

Sold in 1921 to Argentina Cia de Naveira, Buenos Aires and renamed General Alvear.
1922 Argentine Nav Co (Nicolás Mihanovich).
1931 Cia Argentina de Nav. Mihanovich.
1942 Cia Argentina de Nav Dodero.
1949 Cia de Nav Fluvial Argentina.
Sank on passage Buenos Aires to Montevideo after stranding four days earlier in fog at Punta Yeguas in the River Plate.^[35]

She was transferred to G.& J. Burns on 1 July 1920 and given her intended name of Moorowl. Owners became Burns & Laird Lines Ltd on 25 July 1922. She was renamed Lairdsmoor on 30 May 1929.
On passage from Dublin to Greenock in dense fog she collided with Shaw Savill's Taranaki off Black Head at 03:20 hrs on 7 April 1937. Taranaki rescued 33 crew and 6 passengers but Lairdsmoor's master, Capt. John Campbell, and one of her firemen, Edward McBride, were lost.^[36]

She remained popular, with a passenger capacity of over 1250 and had Decca radar fitted in late 1958. She continued in summer service until her withdrawal in 1966.^[38]

Used by the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps during the Second World War.
Returned to Union Steamship Co in 1946.
Sold in 1951 to Harbour Navigation Co Ltd, Vancouver. Sold in 1969 to Alberni Steam Navigation Co, Port Alberni.
Sold in 1979 to Diversified Holdings Ltd, Victoria, British Columbia.
Sold in 1982 to Lady Rose Marine Services. In active service until 2007, when it was sold to be refurbished as a floating restaurant.^[39]

Wreck sold in 1947 to Italian buyers, raised and towed to Messina, arriving on 5 July 1948.
Repaired, with a new steam engine being fitted
Sold to G Dagnino, Italy
Sold in 1953 to Astrolea Società Anonima, Italy and renamed Asteria.
Sold in 1958 to Lugari & Filippi, Italy and renamed Sanjacopo. New diesel engine fitted in 1962
Sold in 1968 to Società Anonima di Navigazione, Italy
Sold in 1972 to Lidia Melodia Ved. Lugari, Italy. Scrapped in July 1974 at Spezia, Italy.^[40]

Took part in Operation Torch, Operation Overlord and the Kola Run.
Transferred to Irish Naval Service in 1946 and commissioned as LE Maev. Arrived for scrapping at Haulbowline Industries, Cork 1971. Scrapped at Rushbrooke, County Cork.

Underwater Detection Establishment in Portland for trials since 9 September 1944.
Took part in search for HMS Affray.
Arrived for scrapping on 7 November 1957. Scrapped at Faslane.^[41]

Sold in 1948 to Kuwait Oil Co and renamed Amin. Operated under the management of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. To Shell-Mex & BP in 1953 and renamed Shell Fitter
Sold in 1964 to D I Philippopoulos, Greece and renamed Aliki
Sold in 1966 to Naftiki Adrotiki, Greece, then sold in 1968 to Marine Water Supply Co Ltd, Greece. Scrapped in September 1969 at Perama, Greece.^[40]

History: British Transport Commission; prior to 1969 Dredging & Construction Co Ltd, Liverpool; 1980 Vof Banjaard BV, Breskens
1987 lengthened; 1987 renamed Taurus
1990 renamed Banjaard; 1996 converted to trailing suction hopper dredger; 1998 (optd Scheepvaart en Agentuur Mij Oosterlee BV, Breskens)
2007 renamed Inai Kesuma; 2007 Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd, Selangor Malaysia; still active in 2009.^[44]