FAITHLIE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateApril 1884
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 165' x breadth 24' x depth 12'
tonnage 508 tons
tonnage 508 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001208
Keywords
Yard Number: 321
Subsequent Name: ANNONA (1890)
Fate: Lost by collision, Spurn Head (Humber), 19 September 1897.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steamer, raised quarterdeck 49', forecastle 21', bridge deck 44'
Owners:
1884-89: Fraserburgh & Baltic Steam Shipping Co. Ltd, registered Fraserburgh.
1889: Thorburn's Soner S Aktie Bolag, registered at Uddevalla, Sweden.
1894: Rederiakties Avena, R. M. Thorburn manager, registered at Uddevalla.
Masters:
1885: Master J. Milne
1889: Master Thain
1889: Master Melville
1890-97: Master O. T. Kiellberg
General History:
15/07/1884:
Fishing Reports - Stettin, 11 July - from Sheltand direct steamer FAITHLIE with 1501 barrels fulls [fullsized herring] and 308 barrels mattice [young herring].
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
03/01/1887:
Steamer FAITHLIE from Ghent for London with general goods has put into flushing damaged by collision with British steamer WOODSTOCK.
(Glasgow Herald)
17/12/1887:
Telegram from F. Gueira [Portugal] states that British steamer FAITHLIE arrived there 3 Dec. The Captain was drowned in the port and was buried yesterday.
(Glasgow Herald)
21/10/1889:
Fraserburgh steamer FAITHLIE arrived Aberdeen in damaged condition, having come into collision with the pier as she was leaving that port for the continent with herrings. She will be drydocked today.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
20/09/1897:
The steamer EBRO of Sunderland from Shields, cargo coal, and steamer ANNONA of Uddewalla, from Hull to Nakskov [Denmark], cargo coal, collided yesterday about 17 miles off the Spurn [Humber]. The ANNONA foundered. Cook, stewardess and one ordinary seaman drowned. Rest of crew landed at Gravesend by the EBRO, which vessel has bows damaged.
(Glasgow Herald)
Notes: Contract cost £10,200 (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Machinery by Hall Russell. Compund inverted, cylinders of 22" and 40", length of stroke 27", boiler pressure 90lb, 70HP.
