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==Wreck== [[File:At the Science Museum, London 2025 100.jpg|thumb|right|Engine at the [[Science Museum, London]]]] Bell had the ''Comet'' lengthened and re-engined, and from September 1819 ran a service to [[Oban]] and [[Fort William, Highland|Fort William]] (via the [[Crinan Canal]]), a trip which took four days. On 15 December 1820 the ''Comet'' was wrecked in strong currents at Craignish Point near Oban, with Bell on board.<ref name=PrecipitatedEternity>{{cite web | url=http://heritage.scotsman.com/diagrams.cfm?cid=7&id=667862006 | work=The Scotsman | title=The passengers 'precipitated into Eternity' when their steamship sank | date=9 May 2006 | author=Iain Lundy | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107231316/http://heritage.scotsman.com/diagrams.cfm?cid=7&id=667862006 | archive-date=2006-11-07 }}</ref> There were no deaths.<ref name=PrecipitatedEternity /> One of the engines ended its working days in a Greenock brewery,<ref name=CometBrewery>{{cite web | url=http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/readstory.php?id=4951 | title=Comet engine used in brewery! | date=3 August 2004 | work=Greenock Telegraph Online | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803184329/http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/readstory.php?id=4951 | archive-date=2004-08-03 }}</ref> and is now in [[The Science Museum]] in London.<ref name="Deayton" /><ref name=CometBrewery />
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