CHARLES HORSFALL
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1 February 1855
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 182' x breadth 32' 5" x depth 18' 4"
tonnage 798 tons
tonnage 798 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001081
Keywords
Yard Number: 193
Official Number: 1587
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1877 (C582).
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, part iron framed
Owners:
1856-77: Charles Horsfall & Sons, registered at Liverpool
Masters:
1856-58: Master Finlay
1859-61: Master. E. Hughes
1862: Master J. Downie
1863-72 Master Thompson
Voyages:
1856-65: Liverpool - Africa
1866-72: Liverpool
General History:
07/02/1855:
LAUNCH - On Thursday last there was launched from Messrs Hall's building-yard a splendid ship, which was named the "CHARLES HORSFALL", measuring 798 tons new measurement, 860 old measurement. Designed for the African trade (palm oil etc) owned by Messrs Horsfall & Sons, an eminent Liverpool firm. She made a first-rate launch.
(Aberdeen Journal)
03/02/1860:
Mutiny on Board a Ship in the Mersey.—At the Liverpool police court, on Tuesday, ten sailors on board the ship CHARLES HORSFALL, bound for Africa, were charged with mutiny and refusing to proceed to sea. They alleged that they had not bad beef to their tea on Monday, and that the forecastle was too small for the crew. The captain said that though the vessel had lain in the river for live days, the prisoners did not complain till she was about to sail; that she had had ten men more than his present crew in the same forecastle, and that in warm latitudes he supplied hammocks to such of the men as preferred them to bunks. The prisoners, who still refused to sail the ship, were sent prison (having each received doable advance on shipping) for ten weeks.
(Belfast Mercury)
11/07/1866:
West Coast of Africa - steamer TERRIER was spoken and supplied with provisions by ship CHARLES HORSFALL, 30 May.
(Birmingham Daily Post)
Note: Contract cost, £13120 or £15 5s. per ton (builder's list held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
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