The steel screw steamer Longhirst was built by S.P. Austin & Sons of Sunderland for J. Thompson of Newcastle in 1904. Registered at 1,698 tons gross (1,042 net), she measured 268 feet in length with a 38 foot beam, and was engined by Richardsons Westgarth of Sunderland. Originally managed by Fenwick's, she was acquired by them around 1910 and was still owned by them in 1914 when Longhirst became one of the eighty British registered vessels detained in German ports (in her case Hamburg) when war was declared on 4 August. Eventually released, by which time she had been acquired by Lambton & Hetton Collieries, she changed hands again soon afterwards and was bought by the Tanfield Steamship Co. By 1930 she was in Greek ownership and named Takis which she retained despite two further changes of ownership in the 1930's. Sold to Estonian owners in 1939 and renamed Aina, she came under the control of the British government in 1940 and was managed by Dawson of Belfast. Surviving the War, she was sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation in 1950 and scrapped thereafter.