ABERDOUR

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

Date1883

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 250 7/12' x breadth 34 1/12' x depth 17 5/6'
Gross Tonnage: 1519 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001872

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 229
Official Number: 84370
Subsequent Names: NIOBE (1899)

Fate: As NIOBE, lost in collision off Cuxhaven on voyage Bremen-Seaham Harbour in ballast, 6 December 1909.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw cargo vessel, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged. Crew space upper forecastle; poop - chief mate, 2nd mate, chief engineer, 2nd & 3rd engineer, engineer's messroom, steward.

Owners:
13/03/1883:
Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Birnie Adam of Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Adam Jnr., of Aberdeen, Alexander Chivas Adam of 17 Grace Church Street, City of London.
22/08/1884: Thomas Adam Jnr., appointed managing owner subsequent sale of small shares to John Cardno Couper of Craigiebuckler, shipowner; Alexander Davidson of Desswood, advocate; Alexander Hall Wilson, Aberdeen, shipbuilder; Thomas Adam, Aberdeen, banker; Alexander Hepburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, consulting engineer; Francis Clarence Rechab Baker, Sligo, lieutenant, Royal Navy; George Collie, Aberdeen, advocate.
1899: Owner Lauritzen, Esbjerg, Denmark

Masters:
1885-86: Master A. Taylor
1890-91: Master W. Wilson
1894-98: Master W. Keith

General History:
27/11/1883:
Lloyd's agents at Ferrol telegraphs 24 November that ABERDOUR, British steamer from Shields to Greece, put into Ferrol with machinery slightly deranged.
(Daily News)

26/06/1885:
Adam Brothers' steamer ABERDOUR arrived Millwall dock, London, from Smyrna. (Ismir, Turkey)
(Standard (London))

29/09/1885:
Steamer ABERDOUR returned to the Tyne with machinery slightly deranged.
(Western Mail)

08/11/1887:
South Shields - screw steamer ABERDOUR, of Aberdeen, arrived in Tyne from Lisbon. Chief mate reports their captain, Alexander Taylor, belonging to Aberdeen, took suddenly ill and died.
(Dundee Courier)

06/01/1888:
London dock - Adam Brothers' steamer ABERDOUR arrived from Patras (Greece).
(Standard (London))

12/03/1888:
ABERDOUR, steamer from Smyrna, when going up Cattewater at Plymouth to discharge, got propelled on a coal hulk's mooring chain, but was eventually cleared & now safely berthed.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

22/03/1889:
A Smyrna telegram states that the British steamer ABERDOUR, for London with general cargo, is ashore at Saint Jack's spit on a muddy bottom. Assistance has been sent. Another states that an ineffectual attempt has been made to tow her off & she must lighten 400 to 600 tons.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

07/03/1898:
A Salonica (Greece) telegram says British steamer ABERDOUR, from Ergasteria (near Piraeus) in ballast, stranded last night in river Vardar mouth opposite Cape Kara. Salvage steamer gone to her assistance.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

Engines 2 compound surface condensing 150 Horsepower, speed 9.5 knots, 2 steel boilers.