KELPIE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1855
Object NameSCHOONER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 94.8' (Lloyd's 92.8') x breadth 18.5' (Lloyd's 19') x depth 9.2'
gross tonnage 117 tons
gross tonnage 117 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001088
Keywords
Yard Number: 200
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1872 (K51).
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged (see note), 3 masts, raised quarter deck, round stern, sheild figurehead.
Owners:
1856-62: Charles Horsfall & Son, Liverpool
1863-72: T. F. Quin, registered at Liverpool
Masters:
1856-62: Master E. Hughes
1863-67: Master S. Gillard
1868-73: Master E. Tippett
Voyages (Lloyd's Register):
1856-58: Liverpool - Africa
1859-62: Liverpool
1863-67: Liverpool - Gambia
1868-72: London - Bathurst (Gambia)
General History:
11/06/1855:
KELPIE, schooner, arrived from Parwabylo with aboard Captain and four crew of steamer BRISBANE, wrecked 23 April at Pedro de Sal.
(Daily News)
23/07/1862:
For sale 24 July at Liverpool Exchange, the fine A1 clipper schooner KELPIE, built by celebrated builders Messrs Hall of Aberdeen 1855, and classed A1 10 years, is copper fastened and sheathed with yellow metal. Carries 140 tons on 9ft. water and sails remarkably fast. Was built for her present owners and has always been well taken care of, is abundantly found in stores and in excellent order. Lying in Bramley Moore Dock.
(Liverpool Mercury)
21/12/1869:
At Accra very little trade doing, but health of the place continues good. Schooner KELPIE in port.
(Leeds Mercury)
Notes: Contract cost £3,000 (builder's list held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Sail plan in David R. MacGregor (1984) "Merchant Sailing Ships 1850-1875" (Conway Maritime, London), p.103, says Kelpie was a barqentine, while Lloyd's and the builder's list says schooner. (the difference being a schooner would have had all three masts fore-aft rigged, while a barquentine had the foremast square rigged)
January 1873
February 1868
