VANDA

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

DateNovember 1862

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD (IRON BEAMS)

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 135' x breadth 24.5' x depth 16.2'
gross tonnage 353 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001116

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 229

Fate: wrecked at Poor Head, near Cork, 16 January 1868

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, iron beams

Owner:
1862-65: Henry Barnes & Co., registered at Liverpool
1866-68: Le Maistre & Co.; registered at Jersey

Master:
1863-68: Master W. Carne

Voyages:
1863-67: Aberdeen - South America.

General History:
17/01/1868:
Shipwreck on the Irish coast. Cork, Thursday evening. English ship VANDA ran ashore last night at Inch Bay.
(Glasgow Herald)

17/01/1868:
English barque VANDA, from Iquique [Chile] with cargo of saltpetre ran ashore through mistaking a watch-fire for the harbour light. The Captain and crew were safely landed with the aid of the rocket apparatus. The vessel and cargo are likely to be a total loss.
(Belfast Newsletter)

31/01/1868:
WRECK OF THE VANDA. Letter from the Captain of the barque Vanda, of Jersey, wrecked at Poor Head Station: Poor Head Coastguard Station, Jan. 23rd, 1868. MR. JOHN STORKE, CHIEF BOATMAN CHARGE OF STATION AT POOR HEAD. Sir— Permit me to thank you and the men under your charge for the very prompt services rendered myself and crew in the saving of the lives of thirteen persons and myself, by the rocket apparatus [which fires a line to the ship], on the morning of the 16th instant, from the barque VANDA, which was wrecked on Poor Head. The sea breaking heavily over the ship, it being impossible for any boat to come alongside of the ship.— l remain. Sir, yours gratefully, WM. LE COUTRIM, Master.
(Cork Constitution)

Notes: Contract cost, £6,172 (Builder's List held in Lloyd's Library of Aberdeen Maritime Museum)