DOUGLAS

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

Date1873

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 240' 7" x breadth 34' 1" x depth 21'
Gross Tonnage: 1373 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001828

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 185
Official Number: 65093

Fate: Sunk at the entrance to Haitan Strait, Fujian, China, 14 December 1880.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steamer, schooner rigged, 2 decks, 2 masts, no figurehead.

Owners:
26/04/1873: Registered at Aberdeen, initial owner; John Stewart Lapraik, The Oaks, Acton, Middlesex, merchant.
07/06/1876: 11 shares to Edward Pettit, 24 Rood Lane, City of London, merchant; 6 shares to Jamieson Ellis, 19 Old Broad Street, London, merchant; 6 shares to Robert Ellis Baker, 126 Piccadilly, master mariner; 5 shares jointly to John Renshaw and Woodville McLaren, 4 Fenchurch Street, London, merchants; 3 shares to William Manger, 126 Piccadilly, gentleman; 5 shares to George Harper, Fairfield House, Saxmundham, Suffolk, shipowner. Lapraik now owning 28 shares.
05/02/1881: registration cancelled. Vessel lost on voyage from Amoy to Foochow, 1880.

Master:
1877-80: Master Burnie.

General History:
29/12/1880:
FINDING. In the opinion of this Court the steamship DOUGLAS, with a mean draught of 14 feet, while on her passage from Amoy [Xiamen] to Foochow [Fuzou], with 68 passengers on board, struck on an unknown pinnacle rock between Passage Island and North Yit Rocks at the Western entrance of Haitan Straits, there being about eleven feet of water on the said rock at the time, 41 fathoms being marked on the chart. The Court is of opinion that no blame can attach to the master of the DOUGLAS, his officers, or crew, his vessel being only 300 feet out from the middle of the channel as marked on the charts.
(Overland China Mail)

Engines: two vertical direct acting, estimated 200 horsepower.