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JARL

Shipbuildervessel built by Hall, Russell & Company, Limited (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)

DateApril 1872

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 238 7/12' x breadth 30 3/12' x depth 17 1/6'
gross tonnage: 1249 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001825

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 182
Official Number: 63994
Subsequent Names: GASSENDI (1872); MADONNA DELLA COSTA (1891)

Fate: Burnt at Santos, Brazil, 6th July 1894.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Passenger / cargo vessel. Screw steamer, iron, 2 decks (1 deck and awning deck), 5 bulkheads

Pierre Gassendi - French philosopher and atronomer 1592 -1655.

Owners:
1872: R. A. Mudie & Sons, Dundee.
1872: Unknown London owners
1874-85: Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Company, registered at Liverpool (Lamport & Holt).
1885: J. & J. Macfarlane, Glasgow.
1886-90: G. Willison, Kilchatten, Isle of Luing & William H. Raeburn, Glasgow, managers.
1891-94: G. B. Reforzo, registered at Genoa, Italy

Masters:
Lloyd's does not record any masters in the period GASSENDI was owned by Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate
1887-88: Master J. Wallace
1890: Master Smith
1893-94: Master Reboia
1894: Master A. Marcenaro

General History:

13/04/1872: Launched. Named by Miss Mudie. Repoted by the Aberdeen Journal on the 17th of April 1872.

22/05/1872:
'It is stated that the steamer JARL, lately launched from yard of messers Hall, Russell & Co. for Mr. Mudie of Dundee, has been sold to a London firm for a profit of £3,000 owing to the advance in price of iron and wages.'
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal) (also Dundee Courier, 23/05/1872)

31/05/1872: S.S. GASSENDI went on sea trials in Aberdeen Bay and recorded 10 1/2 knots on the measured mile.

01/06/1872:
'The S.S. JARL is now named the GASSENDI and will sail in a few days.
(Aberdeen Weekly Free Press)

03/06/1872:
Screw steamer GASSENDI, lately launched by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen, went out to the bay for trial at the measured mile, vessel ran the mile at mean speed of 3 mins. 42 secs. being about 10 and one half knots per hour. Everything worked very satisfactorily.
(Dundee Courier)

04/06/1872: GASSENDI, Fegusson sailed from Aberdeen for Liverpool in ballast.
07/06/1872: Arrived at Liverpool from Aberdeen.
13/06/1872: Entered out from Liverpool / for Pernambuco via Lisbon.
19/07/1872: Maiden voyage from Liverpool.

03/03/1873:
Liverpool - Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Co.’s steamer GASSENDI left Mersey with ship letters and £16,884 in specie for Bahia (Brazil) and Rio. She will receive telegrams at Lisbon until 5th.
(Belfast Newsletter)

11/01/1873:
Liverpool, 10 Nov. - GASSENDI left Mersey today direct to Montevideo, Buenos Aries and Rossa Rio.
(Birmingham Daily Post)

21/04/1880:
Liverpool, 20 April - Lamport and Holt's steamer GASSENDI left Mersey for Pernambuco [Recife, Brazil].
(Glasgow Herald)

01/04/1885:
Liverpool, 21 March - steamer GASSENDI arrived from River Plate.
(Glasgow Herald)

24/06/1885:
Malta, 23 June - steamer GASSENDI arrived en route to Singapore.
(The Standard)

08/01/1886:
British steamer GASSENDI, from Cardiff, has arrived at Leghorn [Livorno] with decks swept, boats carried away with other deck movables and cabin stove in. She had jettisoned a portion of her cargo.
(Belfast Newsletter)

21/12/1886:
In action brought up at Greenock by Duncan Fraser, shipmaster, Helensburgh, against George Willison, farmer, Kilchatten, Isle of Luing, for £379.18s, wages and disbursements due him by the defender as the only solvent owner of the steamer GASSENDI, of Liverpool, of which pursuer was for some time master. Sheriff Nicolson found for Capt. Fraser with expenses.
(Glasgow Herald)

03/10/1887:
GASSENDI, British steamer, Glasgow to Smyrna, is at Ferrol [Spain] with pumps chocked and cargo shifted.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

Originally built for the Lamport and Holt and owned by their subsidiary Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Company, sold to Italian owners, in 1891 and renamed MADONNA DELLA COSTA. She was on the Mediterranean - New York service carrying immigrants to Ellis Island, New York City.
Caught fire and sank at Santos in 1894.
(Details courtesy of Stewart Ross; Source: www.ellisisland.org/shipping/)

09/07/1894:
Lloyd’s agent at Santos telegraphs that MADONNA DELLA COSTA, steamer, took fire in port, and became total loss; had her inward cargo board.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Engine details: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, compound engine, 29" x 55" with 36" stroke, 561 i.h.p., 98 n.h.p. by Hall Russell.

Boiler: number 2 S.B. iron, heating area (ft^2) 2100, diameter 11' 5 1/4", length 10' 7", 6 furnaces, pressure (p.s.i.) 80

Propeller: 14' 7" diameter, solid, 4-bladed, cast iron.

Note: As the JARL this ship is only found in that newspaper article, it does not appear in Lloyd's, nor does it even appear in Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum.