PS Industry
The Industry, built at Fairlie in 1814 by William Fyfe, was the seventh river steamer to be constructed on the Clyde, and she earned the distinction of being the oldest steamer in the world before she was broken up. Mr. Fyfe built the “ Industry,” with oak grown in his native parish of Kilbirnie, for a small syndicate of far-seeing speculators belonging to Beith. The original engines of the “Industry” were made by Dobbie, but in 1828, she was re-engined by Caird and Co., of Greenock. See PS Comet: Successors by James Williamson.
The engine was recovered when the vessel was broken up, and is now displayed at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow.