ABERDEEN
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
DateMarch 1871
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 230 7/12' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 17 1/12'
gross tonnage 1077 ton
gross tonnage 1077 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001819
Keywords
Yard Number: 175
Official Number: 65076
Subsequent Name: KNUD (1896)
Fate: Sunk at the mouth of the Tyne, 20 November 1902.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clench built no gallery, no figurehead, iron framework.
Owners:
09/05/1871: Registered at Aberdeen for initial joint owners;
Thomas Adam, John Birnie Adam, Thomas Adam Jnr., Alexander Chivas Adam. By February 1873 the Adams owned 48/64 shares with the largest minority shareholder being James William Barclay with 6 shares.
14/06/1887: Owners;
John Birnie Adam, Thomas Adam Jnr., Alexander Chivas Adam, joint owners of 24 shares; George Hepburn, engineer, Liverpool, 2 shares; Alexander Hector Taylor, shipmaster, Aberdeen, 2 shares; Charles Cook, innkeeper, Ballater, 2 shares; Alexander Davidson, advocate, Desswood, 4 shares; Mary Greig or Smith, widow, Aberdeen, 2 shares; George Fyfe, merchant, Aberdeen, 2 shares; Andrew Baxter Buyers, marine engineer, Aberdeen, 1 shares; Jane Baxter or Buyers, widow, Aberdeen, 1 share; John Cardno Couper, landed proprietor, Craigiebuckler, 4 shares; Thomas Adam, banker, Aberdeen, 4 shares; John Crombie, manufacturer, Granholm 2 shares; John Birnie Adam, shipowner, Aberdeen, 2 shares; Jane Milne or Fyfe, widow, Aberdeen, 1 shares; Elsie Douglas Milne, spinster, Aberdeen, 1 share; David Littlejohn, advocate, Aberdeen, 2 shares; David McHardy, ironmonger, Aberdeen, 1 share; Mary McHardy, spinster, Aberdeen, 1 share; Alexander Burness McHardy, HM Corps of Royal Engineers, London, 2 shares; George Collie, advocate, Aberdeen, 2 shares; James Pitkethly, Glasgow, Rev. James Robertson, Edinburgh, John Baird Smith, Glasgow & Michael Johnston, Glasgow - joint owners of 2 shares.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1895-1904: N. K. Streyberg (Danish), registered at Aalborg. (Lloyd’s)
Masters:
1871-73: Master A. H. Taylor
1874-78: Master R. Baxter
1878-81: Master W. Buyers
1882: Master W. Stephen
1883-84: Master Farquarson
1885-88: Master D. Profit
1890-92: Master A. Mowat
1894-95: Master J. Strachan
1895-96: Master M. P. Cormack
1898-99: Master Willadsen
1901-02: Master J. T. Sorensen
Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1871: Aberdeen - Baltic
1872-73: Newcastle - Baltic
General History:
20/09/1871:
Screw steamer ABERDEEN has been unusually quick in the round from Shields to Cronstadt and from Constadt to London, the whole time over the voyage being only 25 days, the run out with 1350 tins coal being done in 5 days, 21 hours, giving average speed 9 knots. The run back (including detention of 7 hrs) was done in 6 days 1 hr. i.e. 9.5 knots and on consumption of 11½ tons coal per day.
(Aberdeen Journal)
10/11/1875:
Steamer ABERDEEN, belonging to Adam & Co., arrived in Aberdeen Bay from Carthagena with cargo of esparto grass and lead, for Aberdeen and latter for Newcastle. Passage 9 days, nearly 3 less than usual for voyage.
(Aberdeen Journal)
17/04/1876:
Screw steamer ABERDEEN, of Aberdeen, Capt. Baxter, has arrived Shields from Carthagena. Captain reports that off Lisbon, about 5a.m., 7 April, weather foggy and going dead slow, he heard a fog horn on port bow and almost immediately cries for assistance. Steamer was at once stopped, when it was found ABERDEEN had struck a fishing boat and cut her down to water's edge. Measures were at once taken to save the crew, one man got hold of a rope that was thrown and got aboard the steamer. Rest of crew managed to get their own boat out before fishing boat sank. They were taken aboard the steamer and afterwards transferred to another fishing vessel.
(Northern Echo)
08/12/1876:
Screw steamer THORNBOROUGH, proceeding down Shields Harbour, collided with screw steamer ABERDEEN, which has come out of Tyne Dock, and did damage to ABERDEEN'S stern. Almost immediately screw steamer NORTHUMBRIA coming down river, similarly collided with ABERDEEN'S stern and did much damage. Stern and steering apparatus of ABERDEEN were completely smashed in
(Newcastle Courant)
08/06/1877:
In Admiralty Division of High Court, action brought by owners of THORNBOROUGH and NORTHUMBRIA against owners of ABERDEEN after collision in Tyne was continued. ABERDEEN was pronounced alone to blame for collision.
(Newcastle Courant)
16/12/1893:
Scarborough trawler LORD CLYDE collided when 15 miles east of Scarborough with screw steamer ABERDEEN. LORD CLYDE sank within 10 minutes and 4 men were rescued under difficult circumstances.
(Exeter Flying Post)
21/11/1902:
DISASTROUS COLLISION OFF THE TYNE. EIGHT LIVES LOST. During the gale last night the Danish steamer KNUD collided with the Steamer SWALEDALE, off the mouth of the Tyne. The KNUD sank almost immediately, and before assistance could be fendered the captain and seven of the crew were drowned. Ten men, including the first and second mates, were picked up by a pilot lifeboat, [from?] the SWALEDALE.
(Pall Mall Gazette)
Engine Details:
Estimated horse power 110.
Steam by screw, two, compound, surface condensing, inverted cylinders, direct acting 28 and half inches by 51 inches, with 33 inch stroke. Tripled by Hall Russell in 1887 by addition of 17" High Pressure [H.P.] cylinder. H.P. and L.P. cylinders in tandem.
Compound Iron boiler - 11' diameter, 6x10" furnaces, 1444ft squared heating area, length 12' 5 ½".
Triple steel boiler: 14' diameter, length 10' 4", 163ps.i. 3x6 and one quarter inch corrugated furnaces.
Propeller: diameter 14'7", cast iron, 4 bladed.
Crew space; topgallant forecastle space for 1st mate, 2nd mate, carpenter, cook & steward, 1st engineer.
