VOLANT
DateJanuary 1873
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 118' x breadth 20.2' x depth 10'
Registered Tonnage: 160 ton
Registered Tonnage: 160 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001706
Keywords
Official Number: 65091
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1881 (V354).
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rig, wood framework.
Owners:
07/02/1873: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
Richard Connon, shipowner, 20 shares; Alexander Rhind Dyer, shipowner, 20 shares; John Humphrey, shipbuilder, 24 shares - All Aberdeen.
01/10/1875: Richard Connon 20 shares and John Humphrey 24 shares to Robert Thomson, London, shipowner.
19/10/1875: On death of Alexander Rhind Dyer 14 June 1875 his 20 shares sold to Robert Thomson, London.
23/10/1875: Registry transferred to London this day.
(Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives))
1876: A. N. Reed, registered at London
1877-81: registered in Spain (Owners name blank in Lloyd's)
Masters:
1873-75: Master Brands
1876-77: Master May
General History:
08/11/1873:
THE RAID ON UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS AT ABERDEEN. We are quite accustomed to a run the Inspectors of Weights and Measures upon the bakers, the grocers, and other indispensable functionaries in civilized life, but a run upon the owners of unseaworthy ships and a wholesale condemnation of vessels like that which has taken place at Aberdeen this week, is sufficiently novel and important to call for some notice. It is not very long since Mr Plimsoll, M.P., stood before Aberdeen audience and spoke in high terms of commendation of the ships owned by the Messrs Thompson of that city, one of whose vessels was on that occasion named after the sturdy friend of our blue-jackets. [...]. Not a few of the ships that have been condemned are very old. For example, the schooner LEIPSIC Packet, 98 tons register, which has been prevented from going to sea at Aberdeen, was built in 1818. The presumption is that this vessel has served its day and generation, and little more, and should be broken up forthwith. But while the presumption is so, it must not be forgotten that many an old vessel is far more seaworthy than others that have been built more recently. It all depends on the original construction. As an instance of the truth that a new ship may be considered unseaworthy, we may notice that the steamer VOLANT, 102 tons [sic] register, has been ordered' to be detained for the present from putting to sea, the vessel having been built only last year. Our Aberdeen correspondent informs that the cause of this detention its defective machinery, the exposed state of its engineroom and stoke-hole. Be this as it may, the new steamer has been detained equally with vessels constructed some half a century ago.
(Dundee Courier)
17/11/1873:
The inspection of the suspected vessels in Aberdeen Harbour by the Board of Trade Surveyor is proceeding. The steamer VOLANT, belonging to Messrs. Richard Connon & Co. has been acquitted. Trifling repairs have been ordered on one or two.
(Liverpool Mercury)
25/01/1876:
Aldeburgh Petty Sessions - John West, fireman on board the screw steamer VOLANT, was brought up for refusing to continue his voyage from the Alde River to London. Captain William George May said "I am the Captain of the screw steamer VOLANT and West was fireman aboard the vessel. On Monday 17th I ordered him to work and he refused, he wanted his discharge. I refused to discharge him as he had signed articles for London". - Alexander, the chief engineer, corroborated the satement of the captain. The defendent said "I shipped in London to go foreign and I considered when I came here and the cargo (rye) was discharged that the voyage was ended". Magristrates were of opinion he was entitled to his discharge and dismissed the case.
(Ipswich Journal)
Engines: 2 diagonal surface condensing by Presslie & Leys, Aberdeen. 40hp. (Aberdeen register)
Lloyd's has engines by Hall Russell, inverted 2 cylinder 15" diameter and 15" stroke. 65lb boiler pressure. 25hp.
March 1869
22 June 1872
September 1873
1874
