ESMERALDA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1874
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 185 3/6' x breadth 26 1/12' x depth 12 1/6'
Gross Tonnage: 638 ton
Gross Tonnage: 638 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001837
Keywords
Yard Number: 194
Official Number: 70438
Subsequent Names: HOKURIYU MARU (1888).
Fate, unknown, last in Lloyd's 1893 (H426)
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 2 decks (1 deck and awning deck), 2 masts, brigantine rigged, elliptical stern, clencher built, no galleries or figurehead, iron frame, 4 bulkheads.
Owners:
1874: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
Thomas Russell, engineer, 64 shares.
03/1876: Registration cancelled, vessel transferred to Hong Kong.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1876-82: F. C. Parker, registered at Hong Kong (Lloyd's)
1884-88: China and Manila Steamship Co. registered at Hong Kong
1888: Hiroumi Nisaburo (sometimes given as Jisaburo), registered at Osaka
Masters:
1875-77: Master E. Thebaud
1877-78: Master R. J. Cullen
1880-83: Master Talbot
1884-85: Master G. Wright
1888: Master Hamlin
1888-92: Master Makihara
1893: Master Katsunuma Gori
General History:
13/11/1874:
A finely modelled steamer, the ESMAERALDA, was launched at Footdee yard of Hall Russell & Co. She is classed A1 at Lloyd's and has compound surface condensing engines 110 horse power nominal. She has been built to order of Messrs. Peele, Hobble and Co., Manila, and is intended for trading in the China seas.
(Dundee Courier)
18/03/1884:
ESMERALDA, British steamer, for Amoy, has put back to Hong Kong leaky, having been ashore.
(Glasgow Herald)
16/06/1888:
The Japan Mail says :—The steamer ESMERALDA, recently purchased by a merchant of Kanazawa, to be placed on the Yokohama-Kobe berth, has been turned over to her new owner, and, having hoisted the national flag, will be sailed by Captain Makihara, and re-named the HOKURIKU MARU. [sic]
(Overland China Mail)
Engines: 2 compound direct action, 26½" and 43" cylinders, 30" stroke, 100 h.p.
