ADMIRAAL
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date31 May 1865
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumCOMPOSITE
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 205' x breadth 28.9' x depth 13.8'
gross tonnage 537 tons
gross tonnage 537 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001130
Keywords
Yard Number: 242
Fate unknown, not listed in Lloyd's
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer
Owner:
1865: Netherlands India Steam Navigation Co., registered at London.
General History:
07/06/1865:
LAUNCH OF A SCREW STEAMER - There was launched on Tuesday week from A. Hall & Co.'s lower building-yard a fine screw-steamer of 150 horse-power, built on the composite principle, viz., iron frame, and planks wholly of East India teak. She will register 700 tons, and will be fitted here with engines complete and ready for sea. This vessel is named "ADMIRAAL" and built to the order of the Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company, Limited. We understand she is to form one of a line of steamers to run 'twixt the Netherlands and Batavia, is specially intended for the mail service and passenger trade, and appears to be as fine a model as ever has been turned off at this port.
(Aberdeen Journal)
10/11/1865:
THE NETHERLANDS INDIA STEAMERS. MR. H. O. ROBINSON the managing director of this company, and the original concessionaire, proceeds by the present mail to Java to organise the various lines agreed on. The fleet of steamers, which have been noted in our journal when despatched, consists of the following:—Koning Willem III., Koningin Sophia, Baron Bentinck, ADMIRAAL, Baron Sloet van de Beele, Minister van Staat Rochussen, W. Cores de Vries, and Sunda—say eight in all. It is intended to despatch one more to complete the number required for the various stations.
London and China Express
(Aberdeen Journal)
Note: Contract price £22,447
Since ADMIRAAL is not listed in Lloyd's, all of the information apart from newspaper clippings comes from the Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum.
