IDA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateAugust 1883
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 239.9' x breadth 34' x depth 16.1'
gross tonnage 1305 tons
gross tonnage 1305 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001202
Keywords
Yard Number: 315
Official number: 88741
Fate: Sunk by u-boat, 15 miles SE of Flamborough Head, 8 February 1917.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steamer, quarterdeck 92', bridge deck 52', forecastle 32'
Owner:
1884-1906: Pyman, Bell and Co., registered at Newcastle.
1907-17: Brugge & Co. registered at Mandal, Norway
Masters:
1890: Master J. C. Young
1891: Master J. H. Ashton
1895: Master L. C. C. C. Rasmussen
1899-1900: Master G. A. Petterson
1903-05: Master W. M. Devine
1905-06: Master T. Scott
1907-08: Master O. Eriksen
1909-13: Master R. Olsen
General History:
31/08/1883:
Steamer, IDA, launched from shipbuilding yard of Alexander Hall & Co. on 4 August, sailed for Stockton-On-Tees in tow of steam tug GRANITE CITY, for purpose of getting her boilers and engines (120hp) fitted. She has been built for Pyman, Bell & Co., Newcastle and will be used in carrying general goods, particularly in the Baltic and Mediterranean. Vessel is presently under charge of Captain Denby.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
04/05/1888:
IDA, steamer, proceeding to sea from Grimsby, got out of channel, grounded and remains.
(York Herald)
06/02/1889:
Steamer IDA, on entering dock at South Shields, fouled the pier, doing considerable damage.
(Northern Echo)
09/01/1892:
Shields, 8 January - Steamer IDA, of Newcastle, collided off south pier with steamer CRYSTAL, for New York. CRYSTAL sank, crew being saved by tugs. IDA arrived in Tyne with bows very much damaged.
(Leeds Mercury)
08/02/1917: Sunk by u-boat, 15 miles SE of Flamborough Head, en route from Leith to London in ballast. ("Lloyd's war Losses: The First World War, casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918" (Lloyd's of London, 1990) p. 92)
Notes: Engines 120 H.P. by Blair and Co., Ltd, Stockton.
Contract cost £20,170 (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
