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BEN MACDUI

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

Owner J & A Davidson (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1874

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 185 3/6' x breadth 26 1/12' x depth 14 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 592 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001833

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 190
Official Number: 65105

Fate: sank off Eigerøya, Egersund, Norway, 24 April 1908.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clencher built, no galleries or figurehead, iron frame, raised quarter deck 55ft, bridge deck 56 ft.

Owners:
Initial owners: J. & A. Davidson, registered at Aberdeen.
02/1886: Sold to Grampian Steamship Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
09/1895: Sold to O Robyns, Antwerp.
1905: Sold to Soc D'Armement Gantois, Ghent.
24/04/1908: Foundered off Egero while on passage from the Tyne to Christiania.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Registers (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1875-76: Master Davidson
1877-78: Master Duncan
1880: Master Spence
1882-84: Master J. Reid
1888-92: Master Wood
1892-93: Master A. Stephen
1893: Master West
1894: Master A. Ross
1897-99: Master G. Detloff
1903-06: Master C. Norman
1907: Master J. Julian

General History:
01/02/1888:
Cardiff, Bojan - steamer BEN MACDUI, of Aberdeen, fouled Greek steamer THRACE lying in East Dock. THRACE had rails, bulwarks and stanchions damaged.
(Bristol Mercury)

03/03/1891:
Shipping dispute at Aberdeen. On Monday morning pickets of seamen's union and shore labourers quietly took their stand round the harbour. BEN MACDUI, BEN WYVIN and two other coal carrying vessels had arrived Sunday morning. Two ships were unloaded by squads of men from Ellis & McHardy's sheds, the pickets being satisfied that no union men were involved aboard or on the dockside. A crowd gathered round the pickets and after 3pm marched in a body towards the BEN MACDUI. The constables succeeded in getting the men pushed back. Next morning officials of Aberdeen branch of shipping federation (the employers' designation) reported that ships which had been brought in were proceeding to discharge with free labour men (non union).
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

21/03/1891:
Free labour men discharging steamer BEN MACDUI (presumably on a later voyage), but no desertions from ranks of strikers.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

21/12/1894:
Steamer BEN MACDUI, of Aberdeen, in proceeding up the Thames yesterday, collided off Greenwich with steamer JOHN O SCOTT of Newcastle. Both vessels damaged and latter cut down to water's edge.
(Glasgow Herald)

25/04/1908:
Egersund, April 25, 10 a.m. —BEN MACDUI, Belgian steamer. Newcastle for Christiania [Oslo], supposed foundered. Crew saved in their own boats.
(Lloyd's List)

Engines: 2 engines, compound direct acting inverted cylinders made by Hall, Russel & Co., Aberdeen in 1874. Diameter of cylinder 24" and 40", length of stroke 2'6", 72 HP.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Registers)