ARDMELLIE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1884
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 250 7/12' x breadth 34 1/12' x depth 17 5/6'
Gross Tonnage: 1518 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1518 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001877
Keywords
Yard Number: 234
Official Number: 88861
Subsequent Name: NAJADEN (1900)
Fate: As NAJADEN cut through and sunk by ice in Reval Roads on voyage Bremerhaven - Reval (now Tallinn) with general cargo, 11 February 1905.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clench built, no gallery, no figurehead, iron framework. Crew space: forecastle port & starboard, Bo'sun & carpenter, 1st officer, 2nd officer, 1st engineer, 2ns & 3rd engineer, engineer's mess, steward cook & engineer's steward.
Owners:
02/08/1884: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Birnie Adam, Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Adam Jnr., Aberdeen (listed as managing owner), Alexander Chivas Adam, London.
Subsequent small shareholders; George Fyfe, Aberdeen, merchant; David Arnot, Carnoustie, merchant; John Cardno Couper, Craigibuckler, shipowner; Samuel Aitken, Arbroath, gentleman; Thomas Adam, Aberdeen, banker; Charles Cook, Aberdeen, shipowner.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1900: Owners L. Lauritzen, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Masters:
1885-86: Master A. Cook.
1890-91: Master G. Russell.
1894-95: Master O. Rowsell.
1897-1900: Master A Mowatt.
General History:
06/08/1884:
Regarding a very successful trial trip around Aberdeen Bay. Reported that there was a large company on the trial trip including ladies entertained in the saloon. Attendees included Captain Scott, Mr Ramage of Ramage & Ferguson, Shipbuilders Leith, Messers Wilson and Scott of Hall, Russell & Co. and Mr William Hall, shipbuilder.
"Captain Cook commands the vessel. ARDMELLIE will now sail to South Shields and take in cargo there for a Mediterranean port. The result of the trial trip was highly satisfactory. Engines worked smoothly and attained mean speed of 10 and three-quarter knots. Large company, including a number of ladies, were entertained by Mr Thomas Adam in the saloon of the steamer. Guests included Mr Geo. Nicol, inspectors for Messrs Adam."
(Aberdeen Journal)
Engine details:
Steam ship by a screw, two, compound, surface condensing, 30"x59" with 36" stroke, 180H.P., by HR. 685 i.h.p. and 10 and three quarter knots on trial.
Boiler: Diameter 12'3", length 9'6", heating area 2305 ft. squared, 6x37 and one half inch furnaces, 100 ps.i.
Propeller: Diameter 14'8", 4 bladed.
