PETREL
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
DateDecember 1876
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 216 3/6' x breadth 28 1/12' x depth 13.8'
Gross Tonnage: 841 ton
Gross Tonnage: 841 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001846
Keywords
Yard Number: 203
Official Number: 73742
Fate: Sunk by collision 16 miles off the coast of Holland, 7 July 1912.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, iron, 1 deck with raised quarter deck 66’, forecastle 25’, 5 bulkheads.
Owners:
1876-1912: General Steam Navigation Co. registered at London.
Masters:
1877-78: Master A. Hurst
1880-84: Master G. Taylor
1887-88: Master J. B. Randall
1892-94: Master W. Taylor jr.
1897-1903: Master J. Campbell
1903-04: Master J. Dinneen
1906-11: Master J. Phillips
1911-12: Master F. G. E. McCullough
General History:
20/02/1880:
Telegram from OPORTO states that River Douro has overflowed [...] The General Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer PETREL was off the river on 18th Feb., but there would be no opportunity for her to enter this week.
(Daily News)
15/08/1889:
The steamer PETREL, for Hamburg, returned to Gravesend, machinery defective.
(Northern Echo)
06/01/1893:
Steamers in collision in the Thames - steamer CORMORANT belonging to General Steam Navigation Co. and bound from Hamburg to London, has sunk off the middle buoy in the Thames, the crew are on board steamer PETREL, which vessel has the stem broken.
(Daily News)
12/02/1897:
Danish schooner MARIE HARSEUS, was run down between Beachy Head and The Wight by steamer PEARL. Crew saved and landed at Portland by steamer PETREL.
(Glasgow Herald)
13/12/1900:
PETREL, steamer, of London, proceeding down Gallion's Reach, Thames, collided with Cory's barge Roads, sinking one of the barges laded with coal. PETREL had bows considerably damaged and returned up river.
(Northern Mail)
26/12/1900:
Forehold and contents of steamer PETREL, lying off Rotherhithe, have been severly damaged by fire.
(Western Mail)
08/07/1912:
The British steamer PETREL, from Amsterdam for London and Danish steamer TUBORG, from Huelva for Stettin, collided the North Sea 16 miles off Ymuiden. The former sank, but the crew were saved. The later put Into Ymuiden badly damaged. Her bows are stove in and full of water and two feet in No. I hold
(Belfast News-Letter)
Engines: Machinery by Hall Russell, 2 cylinder compound inverted engine, cylinder diameter 26½“ and 48”, length of stroke 30”, 99H.P.
