LEONOR
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
DateDecember 1873
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 180 5/12' x breadth 27 1/12' x depth 12'
gross tonnage: 640 ton
gross tonnage: 640 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001832
Keywords
Yard Number: 189
Official Number: 64129
Subsequent Name: TAIWAN (1878)
Fate: wrecked in the Penghu or Pescadores Islands, west of Taiwan, 14 February 1879.
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck and awning deck, schooner rigged.
Owners:
1874-76: Morrison & Co, registered at Aberdeen.
1877: Douglas, Lapraik & Co.
1878: Lapraik & Co.; registered at Hong Kong
Masters:
1878: Master M. Young
1879: Master Abbott
General History:
24/12/1873:
Launched from building yard of Hall, Russell & Co., screw steamer LEONOR, built under special survey, will be schooner rigged and fitted with compound surface condensing engines of 90hp. Has accommodation for 20 1st class, 10 2nd class and 170 Chinese passengers. Is furnished with steam winches, water ballast & all latest improvements. Built to order of Messrs Morrison & Co., London, to trade between Manilla and Hong Kong.
(Aberdeen Journal)
23/11/1876:
Amoy, 21 November - LEONOR, British steamer, Foochow to Tamsin, has been in collision with FRANCES LEWEY, U.S. brigantine, latter sunk. LEONOR arrived Tamsin slightly damaged. 6 of crew and passengers of brigantine drowned.
(Daily News)
28/04/1879:
THE Loss of THE STEAMER TAIWAN.—A naval court Was held At the British Consulate at Amoy, on March 8 and 7, to inquire into the circumstances attending the loss of the British steamer TAIWAN. After hearing evidence, the Court pronounced the following judgment : " That the TAIWAN was lost on the morning of the 14th February on a reef W.N.W. of Bird Island, lat. 23.44 N., lon. 119.35 E. That the accident was attributable to the usual set of the current to the southward in the N.E. monsoon not having been experienced on this occasion, the course having been shaped to allow for this when a slight current to the northward was afterwards found. That the master is to blame for not making greater effort to ascertain his position, after nearly running his distance to Fisher Island, by use of the patent log. That further care should have been taken to save the passengers' baggage. That the heaving of the log on board the TAIWAN was very slackly attended to. That the captain made every endeavour to save the ship after the wreck. The Court reprimands the master and returns him his certificate. No blame appears to attach to the other officers or crew."
(London and China Telegraph )
Engines: 2 compound inverted Hall Russell engines, boiler pressure 65 lb, cylinders 24½" and 45" diameter, 30" stroke, 80 h.p.
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