TORRINGTON

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

OperatorOperated by Jardine, Matheson & Co. (Shipowners, Opium Traders and Merchants, Hong Kong)

Date1845

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 104.6' x breadth 20.2' x depth 11.2'
gross tonnage: 237 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001038

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 150

Fate: Wrecked near Wusong, north of Shanghai in 1849.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged.

Owners: Hyde, Lennox & Co. London.
Operated by Jardine Matheson.

Master:
1846-49: Master R. J. Nell.

Voyages:
1846-49: Aberdeen - China

General History:
"The TORRINGTON, however, was the first of Hall’s ships to make a great reputation in Chinese waters, and it has generally been said that her success induced Jardine, Matheson & Co. to go to Hall for their tea clippers, STORNOWAY, CAIRNGORM and FLYING SPUR.
Her first captain was Neill and during the 'forties she ran between Hong Kong and Shanghai under Jardine Matheson's flag"
(Basil Lubbock (1933), "The Opium Clippers" (Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow), p. 284)

21/08/1849:
Hong Kong, 20 June - schooner TORRINGTON, hence to Woo Sung, has been wrecked near that port [near Shanghai].
(Morning Post)

28/09/1849:
Re: wreck of schooner TORRINGTON in the Yangtse Kiang [...] the loss may be attributed to there being no beacon at the time on the north bank, the vessel having gone ashore within 200 yards of the sport where the beacon used to be.
(Freeman's Journal)

Notes: Cost £3,877. (Builder's List held in the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
see illustration in Basil Lubbock "The Opium Clippers", p. 304.