The Clyde puffer is a smaw coal-fired an single-mastit cargo ship, biggit mainly on the Forth and Clyde canal, that gied a purvey link athort the wast coast an Hebrides o Scotland.
Biggit atween 1856 an 1939, thir steamboats wis the subjeck o sindry short stories Neil Munro wrate aboot the Vital Spark an captain Para Handy, that produced three telly series.