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LIPPE

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1888

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength: 170.2ft
Breadth: 25.1ft
Depth: 12.7ft
Gross Tonnage: 554 tons.

Object numberABDSHIP001212

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 325

Fate: Wrecked in a collision at the Channel Islands, 27 June 1897.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, quarterdeck 50', bridge deck 45', forecastle 25'.

Owners:
1888: Henri Gerlinger, Antwerp (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1889: A. Deppe, Antwerp

Masters:
1892: Master Thomle

General History:
25/12/1888:
Messrs. A. Hall & Co., a firm formerly famous for fine clipper ships, did good business during the year. First vessel launched by them in 1888 was steel screw steamer LIPPE, purchased by M. Adolf Deppe, Antwerp.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

25/12/1890:
Telegram from Corsen [France], near Ushant, states steamer LIPPE, from Antwerp bound for the south, has taken fire in the hold amongst the cargo. [Morning Post, 29/12/1890: Full of water.]
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

10/06/1895:
LIPPE towed disabled steamer SORRENTA to Dover Roads.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

28/06/1897:
Steamer LIPPE, Antwerp to Nantes, collided in fog yesterday off Casquets [Channel Isles] with steamer PAMPA. LIPPE foundered, crew landed at Deptford; PAMPA apparently uninjured.
(Liverpool Mercury)

Notes: Built on spec
Triple expansion engine by Hall, Russell, cylinders of 14", 22" and 36" diameter, length of stroke 30", boiler pressure 150lb., 80 horse power.