HAI LOONG
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date17 August 1871
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 155 5/12' x breadth 24 1/12' x depth 9 11/12'
gross tonnage: 446 ton
gross tonnage: 446 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001822
Keywords
Yard Number: 179
Subsequent Name: GENYO MARU (1890)
Fate: wrecked near Osaka, 10 January 1904
Propulsion: Steam
Description: 2 decks, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clencher built, no galleries of figurehead, iron frame, screw steamer. 4 bulkheads. Fitted with awning deck 1882.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Owners:
16/09/1871: Registered at Aberdeen for James Morrison and Company, London.
1876: Douglas Lapraik & Co.
1883: Douglas Steamship Co.
1887: H. E. Reynell, Hyogo. Registered at Hong Kong.
1890: "Kyoyeisha" K.K., Kobe, Registered at Kobe.
1897: Fujino Shirobei, Hakodate.
By 1904: K. Kawabe, Osaka.
Masters:
1872-78: Master Farrow
1878-80: Master Abbott
1881: Master Hunter
1882-84: Master Ashton
Voyage (LLoyd's):
1872: Aberdeen - China
General History:
10/01/1872:
From Overland China Mail, 25/11/1871: We are glad to welcome the new steamer HAI LOONG as addition to mercantile fleet of these waters, a second edition on a small scale, of well known steamer KWANG TUNG, intended for the Formosa trade. Steam vessels now making gradual but certain inroads in every branch of sea carrying trade. HAI LOONG and similar steamers under construction likely to prove most powerful competitors to the small sailing vessels which have previously monopolised the trade between island of Formosa and neighbouring Chinese ports. From her satisfactory trial trip from Aberdeen to Hong Kong, we should think her pre-eminently well adapted for trade for which she has been built. From start point to Port Said she was 15 days; from Port Said to Singapore direct only 25 and a half days. She made rather a long passage from there to Hong Kong, but this owing to very steady NE monsoon. She is well fitted in every way for foreign and native passengers and is commanded by Capt. Farlow. As to her construction and machinery, enough to say they are work of well known firm of Hall Russell and Co. of the Granite City.
(Aberdeen Journal)
Notes: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, compound engine, 23” x 37½” with 30” stroke. 344.4 i.h.p., 60 r.h.p.by Hall, Russell. Lloyd's give different dimensions of 23¾” x 38 3/16” with 30” stroke.
Boiler number 1.S.B; heating area (ft^2) 957; diameter 11' 9 1/2", length 8' 10"; 3 furnaces 3, Propellor diameter 10' 5", solid 4 bladed cast iron type.
(Sources: Lloyd's Register of Shipping/ www.theshiplist.com)
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51538&vessel=HAI+LOONG
Listed as “HAILOONG” on http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/douglas.htm
April 1827
