RICHMOND
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1871
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 121' x breadth 20' 1" x depth 9' 7"
Gross Tonnage: 191 ton
Gross Tonnage: 191 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001155
Keywords
Yard Number: 267
Official Number: 65078
Fate: Wrecked on the Skerries, 1 mile west of Lossiemouth Harbour, 9th November 1874.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck and a break, raised quaterdeck 43', 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clencher built, no galleries or figurehead, iron frame.
Owners:
03/08/1871: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
Thomas Adam, banker, Aberdeen, 20 shares; John Birnie Adam, Aberdeen; Thomas Adam jnr., Aberdeen; Alexander Chivas Adam, Newcastle upon Tyne, all shipowners, 22 shares jointly; Alexander Scott of Byres, Banffshire, farmer, 22 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Register (Aberdeen City Archives))
1873: Adam & Co., Aberdeen.
06/071874: Joint owners, 2 shares to Patrick Henderson Chalmers, Aberdeen (advocate).
Master:
1872-74: Master Baxter
General History:
16/11/1874:
'Iron steamship RICHMOND, captain Chalmers, bound for Sunderland, came ashore at the Skerries about a mile west of Lossiemouth harbour. Evening very dark and blinding shower of rain and hail was falling with a high wind from the North West, RICHMOND unsuccessfully tried to enter Port Gordon and Lossiemouth harbours and to find shelter in Burghead Bay. Master finally mistook his position when making another attempt to enter Lossiemouth. Lifeboat was with much difficulty launched and crew brought to shore. RICHMOND being fully exposed to roughness of the seas which swept over her became a total wreck.'
(Aberdeen Journal)
04/12/1874: certificate cancelled
Notes: Contract cost £3,730, possibly for hull only as £4,000 waas claimed in the inquiry report. (Builder’s List held in the Lloyd’s Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum).
2 engines, surface condensing inverted, direct acting, British made in 1871 by Hall, Russell & Co. Diameter of each cylinder 20", length of stroke 1'9". Estimated 35hp.
Boiler: 1 S.B. iron, heating area (ft^2) 589, diameter 9', length 8' 1"
Propeller: 9' diameter, 4 bladed, solid, cast iron.
Hall Russell Order No. 178 was an engine for the steamer RICHMOND.
May 1862
