BRAEMAR
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Owner
J & A Davidson
(Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date1875
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 200 3/6' x breadth 27 1/12' x depth 15 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 725 ton
Gross Tonnage: 725 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001839
Keywords
Yard Number: 196.
Subsequent Name: BRUNLA (1894).
Fate: sank near Lodbjerg, Norway after being in collision with the steamer GOTA, 10 April 1896, while coasting to Moss, 36 miles south of Christiania.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, clencher built, no figurehead, iron frame. Part double bottomed hull.
Owners:
1875: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
James Davidson and Alexander Davidson, merchants, Aberdeen, joint owners of 64 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
02/1886: The Grampian Steamship Co. Ltd.
05/1894: R. M. Petersen, Moss, Norway.
Masters:
1876: Master U. R. Davidson.
1877-79: Master W. Connon
1880: Master J. Hill.
1881: Master Waston
1882: Master J. Smith
1883-84: Master Grubb.
General History:
05/07/1876:
Capt. U.R. Davidson presented with handsome telescope, gift of King of Norway and Sweden, for rescuing crew of Norwegian schooner HARLINGIN in the Baltic. He was at that time master of steamer BRAEMAR, of Aberdeen. Mate of BRAEMAR will be presented with £5 and each of crew £3.
(Dundee Courier)
17/01/1879:
Davidson, Armistead and Co. sue for payment of £100 for alleged undue detention of steamer BRAEMAR at Pernau [Gulf of Riga, Estonia] in 1877. Consignees counter-claim £50 for injury to cargo. Action withdrawn.
(Dundee Courier)
07/02/1879:
While steamer BRAEMAR being berthed in Aberdeen, James Noble, seaman, in handling pilot boat rope, allowed his hands to be drawn between rope and belaying pin - one finger of each hand broken and smashed, removed to infirmary.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
19/08/1879:
Capt. John Steel of steamer BRAEMAR, on voyage Antwerp - Shields, large abandoned fishing boat was seen in heavy seas off Whitby - apparently undamaged. Feared crew had become casualties during gale.
(Dundee Courier)
07/04/1882:
Steamer BRAEMAR arrived Dundee from Riga.
(Dundee Courier)
22/12/1884:
Steamer BRAEMAR, from Calcutta, sighted off Malta 23 July.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
22/12/1886:
Braemar, steamer, Swansea for Catania [Sicily] arrived Gibralter for medical assistance.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
1889: Not listed in Lloyds Register.
(Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping)
08/01/1889:
Steamer HOLMSIDEE, Shields - London, sank off Harbro' Sunday night after collision in thick fog with steamer Braemar, of Aberdeen. Crew of it saved by BRAEMAR, which was good deal damaged and anchored in Yarmouth roads.
(Dundee Courier)
12/01/1889:
BRAEMAR, Captain Grubb, Dunkirk - N. Shields in Ballast, had her bow partly stove in, covered by insurance. Nearly all her crew belong to Aberdeen.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
11/03/1890:
Steamer John Bowen collided with steamer BRAEMAR at South Shields. Braemar's port bow considerably damaged.
(North Eastern Daily Gazette)
08/04/1891:
Steamer BRAEMAR, of Aberdeen, with cargo of wood for Gallipoli, stranded at Otranto near Brindisi. Refloated, then diver stopped leak. Steamer has proceded to Brindisi.
(Dundee Courier) also (Aberdeen Weekly Journal 09&10/04/1891)
Note: 2 compound inverted direct acting compound surface condensing engines made by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen. In 1888 1 set of triple engines and a steel boiler were fitted by Hall, Russell's.
