AUCHINTOUL

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

DateAugust 1880

Object NameCARGO VESSEL

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 260' x breadth 34' 2" x depth 23' 2"
gross tonnage: 1637 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001859

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 216
Subsequent Names: LA GAULE (1881).

Fate: broken up 1932.

Propulsion: Steam

Description: Screw steamer, 2 decks, 2 masts, schooner rigged, eliptical stern, clench built, no figurehead or galleries, iron frame.

Owners:
03/09/1880: Registered in Aberdeen for owners;
John Birnie Adam, Thomas Adam jnr., Aberdeen; Alexander Chivas Adam, Newcastle upon Tyne (joint owners of 64 shares).
19/12/1883: registration cancelled vessel sold to the French.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1881: Sold to French owners, Delmas Freres, registered at La Rochelle.
1887: N. Parquet & Co., registered at Marseilles.
1894-1932: Compagnie de Navigation Armenienne et Maroc (N. Parquet & Co., managers).

Masters:
1882-94: Master R. Renauleaud
1897-98: Master A. Bianchi
1900-02: Master Roze
1904-05: Master Nergues
1907-08: Master Le Roch
1910: Master Reiriz
1913: Master Rezoulieres
1914-18: Master Mattei
1920: Master Agostini

General History:
17/12/1880:
Dover, 16 December - Steamer AUCHINTOUL, from New York for Hamburg, passed here.
(Glasgow Herald)

30/12/1880:
Screw steamer AUCHINTOUL, of Aberdeen, arrived in Tyne from Hamburg and reported having put back, after leaving the Elbe, in consequence of her machinery becoming disabled. She narrowly escaped being driven ashore at Cuxhaven.
(Daily News)

12/02/1881:
Screw steamer AUCHINTOUL, of this port, lately built by Hall Russell & Co. for Adam & Co. has been sold to a French shipping company. Late Captain, Mr Cook, has been appointed to command of COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Hull Steam Co.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

15/04/1881:
Avonmouth, 14 April - LA GAULE from Baltimore arrived here.
(Glasgow Herald)

28/05/1881:
French steamer LA GAULE has arrived Philadelphia 27 May.
(Standard)

09/08/1881:
Baltimore, 8 August - LA GAULE arrived from Cartagena.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

21/11/1881:
LA GAULE arrived Baltimore from Benisaf (Algeria).
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

21/10/1882:
LA GAULE Baltimore, 20 October, arrived.
(Standard)

28/05/1885:
LA GAULE, New Orleans for Bremen, arrived Falmouth 27 May.
(Glasgow Herald)

15/07/1885:
Suez Canal, 12 July - LA GAULE arrived Port Said for Saigon.
(Standard)

17/08/1885:
LA GAULE arrived Singapore 15 August.
(Standard)

10/10/1892:
LA GAULE badly stranded on rock and full of water on Cape Kezil off Cheama, the position is critical.
(Dundee Courier)

13/10/1892:
LA GAULE refloated.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

21/11/1899:
Dover, Monday - In very heavy fog on English channel serious collision between steamer LA GAULE, of Marseilles, Antwerp-Constantinople and London steamer PONDO. LA GAULE brought into Dover with very extensive damage on port quarter extending down to waterline. PONDO disappeared into fog.
(Belfast Newsletter)

21/11/1899:
PONDO, Pensacola for Antwerp, in collision with LA GAULE off Royal Sovereign Lightship, passed flushing damaged above waterline.
(Western Mail)

25/11/1899:
Dunkirk - LA GAULE put in with 4 plates stove in above waterline on port stern.
(Liverpool Mercury)

Lloyd's Returns of Ships Totally Lost, Condemned, etc. 1st October - 31st December 1932:
LA GAULE broken up. (No. in registration book 65946.)

Notes:
Engines: 1 pair inverted direct acting compound surface condensing made by Hall Russell & Co., cylinder diameters 31" and 60", length of stroke 36", boiler pressure 80 lb., estimated horsepower 160.
Crew space: lower forecastle; for firemen, house for seamen, engineer's mess room, cabins for carpenter, chief engineer, 2nd engineer, chief officer, 2nd officer, 3rd officer, cook and steward.
1910: Wireless Call Sign JVMQ
1923: Wireless Call Sign OKZR