VANGUARD
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1872
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 166' x breadth 28' x depth 17.7'
gross tonnage 559 tons
gross tonnage 559 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001164
Keywords
Yard Number: 276
Official Number: 64329
Fate: sunk in the ice between Greenland and Canada, 14 April 1909.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steamer with barque rig, 2 decks, quarterdeck 33', forecastle 31'
Owner:
1887-94: John Munn & Co., registered at St. John's, Newfoundland
1895-96: J. F. Aspey and A. G. Smith, registered at Glasgow
1896-1907: D. Murray & Son, registered at Glasgow
1908-09: Murray & Crawford, registered at Glasgow
Masters:
1885-93: Master H. Dawe
1893-95: Master R. Gosse
1896-1906: Master C. Dawe
1906-09: Master D. Blandford
General History:
19/04/1897:
The yachting and Fisheries Exhibition - exhibits from Aberdeen. The seal fishing is represented by a photograph of the Newfoundland sealing steamer VANGUARD.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
28/05/1900:
Messrs John Murray & Son, Oil Merchants and Drysalters, Glasgow, have received a statement of the Newfoundland seal fishing for the recent season. Five of the steamers were owned on the Clyde - steamer VANGUARD 25,116 seals.
(Glasgow Herald)
15/04/1909:
A St John's, Newfoundland, telegram states that the British steamer VANGUARD, with her propeller shaft broken, was abandoned and afterwards seen to founder.
(Belfast News-Letter)
27/04/1909:
VANGUARD (s)- St. Johns N.F., April 14 - Sealing steamer VANGUARD has been lost in the ice fields. The crew were landed at Catalina today by steamer ALGERINE. A catch of 9,000 seals went down with the steamer
(Lloyd's List)
Note: Contract cost £16,950 (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library in the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Engines by Fawcett & Co., Preston, compound, 2 cylinder, 26" and 52" diameter, 24" stroke. 110 H.P.
Not in Lloyd's register before 1887.
