 Still the Commissioners prevaricated , daunted by the potential costs , estimated by Robert Stevenson at £ 63 @,@ 000 . They set up a special Skerryvore Committee , whose members decided to visit the site by steamer to see for themselves . Just off Skerryvore a fire broke out in the boiler room crippling the ship . It was extinguished and no harm was done , but the experience may have been persuasive . 
