HIGHLANDS
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1884
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 230' x breadth 33.1' x depth 16.2'
gross tonnage 1147 tons
gross tonnage 1147 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001204
Keywords
Yard Number: 317
Subsequent Names: HALFDAN (1910); F G REINHOLD (c.1925); STURLA (1928)
Fate: STURLA was sunk by submarine gunfire, five miles off the coast of Maratea, in the Gulf of Policastro, 8 June 1941 (Ref: Wreck Site)
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steamer, well deck, quarterdeck 90', bridge deck 57', forecastle 24'.
Owners:
1884: Hardy and Wilson, registered at West Hartlepool
1898: Atkinson Bros, registered at W. Hartlepool
1910: Angf. Aktieb. Gotebörg-Manchester, Manager Kof Dalman, registered at Götenborg.
1918: H. Uner Akteb, Rob Göhle Man.
1925: F. G. Reinhold, Danzig.
12/1928: Vessel was sold by F G Reinhold of Danzig to Italian buyers for £6,750 and renamed STURLA (from 'F G REINHOLD').
1937: Ignazio Messina, Genoa.
Masters:
1885: Master J. W. Holman
1888-91: Master D. McGregor
1891: Master Ross
1897: Master J. J. Atkinson
General History:
07/08/1886:
At Hartlepool County Court, dispute over charter charge after 9 hour delay to steamer HIGHLANDS at Hartlepool for WISMAR [German], steamship owners J. Lohden, successful.
(North East Daily Gazette)
18/02/1888:
HIGHLANDS, British steamer and NEFLICHE, Egyptian steamer, collided at Gibraltar. Both slightly damaged.
(York Herald)
05/03/1889:
British steamer HIGHLANDS, Kustenoje to Gibraltar with barley, aground near Gallipoli Old Lighthouse, moderate weather, following day refloated after lightening.
(Northern Echo)
15/02/1890:
Screw steamer HIGHLANDS arrived West Hartlepool with cargo of pig iron, being first ever imported here from Bilbao, result of high prices here.
(Newcastle Weekly Courant)
07/04/1890:
Steamer HIGHLANDS, Rouen to Middlesbrough, stranded at Dungebess, but got off with a tug.
(North East Daily Gazette)
08/04/1891:
British steamer HIGHLANDS returned from Riga damaged by ice.
(Northern Echo)
12/12/1891:
Steamer HIGHLANDS, Swansea to Bordeaux, returned to Penarth Roads with funnel gone and other damage, including bridge.
(Liverpool Mercury)
07/01/1893:
Large number of people attracted to docks in West Hartlepool by extraordinary spectacle of steamer HIGHLANDS arrived from Memel literally sheathed in ice, her funnel, masts, rigging and deck house covered with frozen snow and ice accumulated on passage across North Sea. Captain Ross reported weather very severe.
(North East Daily Gazette)
10/05/1894:
British steamer HIGHLANDS put into Gibraltar with eccentric rod out of order.
(Glasgow Herald)
27/04/1896:
British steamer HIGHLANDS, Riga to Hartlepool, put into Cariscrona with crank pin broken and bows chafed by ice.
(Glasgow Herald)
09/02/1897:
British steamer HIGHLANDS, Bona [Algeria] to Rotterdam with mineral cargo collided at Cadiz with U.S. schooner HELEN G. MOSLEY, which was towed into port, full of water, by HIGHLANDS. HIGHLANDS had stem smashed and plated damaged.
(Glasgow Herald)
12/01/1898:
Freight rates - HIGHLANDS at Benicef [Algeria] to Stockton, prompt 7/9d.
(Belfast Newsletter)
02/05/1898:
Ipswich - Steamer HIGHLANDS, while proceeding down river, grounded about 3 miles below the dock, but floated next tide.
(Dundee Courier)
Notes: Contract cost £18,895 (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Compound engine, 2 cylinders of 28" and 54" diameter, 36" stroke, 146 NHP, made by Blaikie Bros, Aberdeen
