KAGOSHIMA
Date14 August 1866
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 143 1/3' x breadth 26 5/12' x depth 15 7/12'
Gross Tonnage: 394 ton
Registered Tonnage: 460ton
Gross Tonnage: 394 ton
Registered Tonnage: 460ton
Object numberABDSHIP001691
Keywords
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1873 (K4).
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 2 decks (main and 1/2 poop), 3 masts, dragon figurehead.
Owners:
21/08/1866: Registered at Aberdeen for owner;
James Lindley Glover, shipowner, Aberdeen, 64 shares.
18/02/1867: James Lindley Glover 28 shares to Charles Thomas Glover, shipowner, Aberdeen.
15/10/1868: Thomas Blake Glover, merchant, Nagasaki, Japan, empowered to sell the ship for sum not less than £500 sterling at any port in China or Japan within 12 months.
12/04/1869: Registry closed - vessel sold to a foreigner.
Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives)
Master:
1867-73: Master W. Glover
Voyage:
1867-73: Aberdeen - Japan
General History:
15/08/1866:
Launch.—Yesterday there was launched from the building-yard of Messrs John Humphrey and Co., a fine clipper ship, of 394 tons N. N. M., and 460 tons builders measurement. She is to class 8 years A 1 at Lloyds; is the property of Messrs Glover Brothers of Aberdeen and Japan, and is to trade between Japan and China. She was gracefully named the "KAGOSIMA” by Miss Donnell of Manchester, and is to be commanded by Captain Glover.
(Aberdeen Press and Journal)
Notes: The name, from the Japanese province 鹿児島, can be transcribed into English as either KAGOSHIMA or KAGOSIMA.
Lloyd's gives the date of construction as March 1866, but the Aberdeen Journal clearly shows the launch as being in August.
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