GRANDHOLM
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1884
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 242' 7" x breadth 32' 7" x depth 17' 1"
Gross Tonnage: 1408 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1408 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001880
Keywords
Yard Number: 237
Official Number: 88863
Fate: Vessel stranded at entrance to port of Memel and became total wreck, 21 October 1899.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw cargo vessel, one deck, two masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clench built, no gallery, no head, and iron framework.
Owners:
03/10/1884: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
The Grandholm Steamship Co. Ltd., Aberdeen
William Leslie managing owner.
23/08/1892: Sold to the Leslie Steamship Co. Ltd., (manager William Leslie, shipowner, 64 Marischal Street, Aberdeen).
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Masters:
1890-91: Master Masson
1898-99: Master W. M. Campbell
General History:
01/06/1885:
Liverpool, 30 May - Steamer GRANDHOLM left for Galveston.
(The Standard)
13/11/1885:
Liverpool, 12 November - steamer GRANDHOLM left for Savannah.
(Glasgow Herald)
07/04/1888:
Steamer GRANDHOLM , from Jamaica, passed Gravesend 6 April for London Docks.
(Glasgow Herald)
19/10/1898:
Steamer GRANDHOLM , of Aberdeen, collided with Pier Head as she entered dock at South Shields in ballast. Injuries to her hull, which were below waterline, could not yet be estimated.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
19/06/1899:
Grandholm, owned by William Leslie & Co. went ashore near Allinge (Bornholm, Denmark). But since refloated. She was carrying cargo of wood and deck load was jettisoned.
(Liverpool Mercury) (and Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 21/06/1899).
24/10/1899:
Memel (then Russia) - the lifeboat here rescued 15 persons from British steamer GRANDHOLM (Captain Campbell) which stranded on 21st Oct.
(Belfast Newsletter)
Notes: Engines 1 pair compound inverted direct acting, 150 horsepower
Engine description: Number 2 steel boiler, 11'10" diameter, 9'6" in length, 6x36" furnaces with 2173.6 square feet heating area and 100 psi.
Propeller: 14'4" diameter, solid 4-bladed cast iron.
