REINDEER
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1863
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumCOMPOSITE
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 183' x breadth 32' x depth 21'
tonnage 964 ton
tonnage 964 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001119
Keywords
Yard Number: 231
Fate: wrecked in the Maldives, July 1868.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 3 masts, iron frame planked.
Owner:
1863-68: J. R. Wardley, registered at Liverpool.
Master:
1863-68: Master McClelland
Voyages (Lloyd's register):
1863: Aberdeen - China
1864-68: London - San Francisco
General History:
11/02/1863:
'Property of Jervis Robert Wardley of Liverpool, whose lady stepped forward and christened the vessel "REINDEER". Captain McClellan (late of the China tea clipper Chrysolite) takes command. Will sail for China to bring home first teas of the season.'
Construction; 'Iron frames, planked [...] teak, fastened with screwed brass bolts galvanised; iron masts steelyards and topmasts, wire rigging [...]'
(Aberdeen Journal)
11/08/1868:
THE CHITTAGONG BRIG. Kurreem Bux, which arrived at Gaile on the 15th of July from the Maldive Islands, brought Captain MacLellan of the British ship REINDEER and twenty-five of crew, and Captain Stevens and eleven of the crew of the TREVANION. Both these vessels had been wrecked on the Maldive Islands a short time previous, one on her voyage from Aden to Galle, and the other from Aden to Mauritius.
(Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore))
29/11/1869:
LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY.
To Antonio Panton, seaman, for swimming with a rope on to a lee shore in a gale of wind and heavy sea, and with the assistance of another man making it fast to the rocks, by which the greater part of the crew of the ship REINDEER (26 in number) were saved, when said vessel was wrecked on one of the Maldive Islands, and all her boats had been washed away, a Silver Medal, 2nd class, and £5 0 0.
(Liverpool Albion)
Notes: Contract cost £18,660 or £18 15s per ton (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
