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EDITH

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

DateJuly 1893

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 95.3' (later given as 113') x breadth 20.1' x depth 7.6'
Gross tonnage 148 tons (later given as 181 tons)

Object numberABDSHIP001235

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 348
Official Number: 99488

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's register 1952

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw steamer, ketch rigged, well deck.

Owners:
1893: Robert Rix, Hull, registered Boston
1918: Olwen S.S. Co. Ltd, Hull
1923: Kanh Bros, later T. Small & Co., Yarmouth
07/1936: Sold by the Great Yarmouth Shipping Co. to Scottish buyers for around £750.
1937-52: Barlow & Co., Yarmouth

General History:
26/11/1895:
Yorkshire steamers in collision - steamer EDITH, Hull from Ghent, General cargo, collided with steamer R.W. Boyd, anchored off Tilbury. EDITH sank at Gravesend.
(Yorkshire Herald) (also Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 26/11/1895)

Notes: Compound engines with 13" and 26" cylinders, 28" stroke. Boiler 9'0" diameter, 8'6" length, 100 lb. pressure. (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Not in Lloyd's Returns of Ships Broken Up, Etc 1950-59