GLOAMIN
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1886
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 250 7/12' x breadth 34 1/12' x depth 26'
Gross Tonnage: 1541 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1541 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001885
Keywords
Yard Number: 242
Official Number: 89100
Fate: Sunk 1915 (according to http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?181418)
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, forecastle 36', bridge deck 57'.
Owners:
J. R. Mudie, Dundee
Master:
1888: Master R. Sangster
General History:
11/05/1886:
Steamer GLOAMIN, recently launched by Hall Russell & Co., has now almost completed her outfitting. Last night electric lighting apparatus with which she is fitted was set in operation for first time - 92 lamps including masthead & 2 side lights. Motive power is 12 horse power engine and Victoria dynamo. Flame produced was very bright and steady and threw light well out all around, far surpassing ordinary oil lamps. The unusual spectacle attracted large number of spectators.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
17/05/1886:
R.A. Mudie's new steamer GLOAMIN arrived Dundee Friday night and left again Saturday for Shields.
(Dundee Courier)
30/05/1887:
Weymouth, 27-5-1887 - steamer GLOAMIN, of Dundee, Middlesbrough to Nagapatam (India) put in at noon with cargo of steel rails shifted. Master reports this happened yesterday off Beachy Head owing to vessel rolling heavily in cross sea. Noise was heard in Forehold. Stevedores no aboard and 300 tons will be removed and restowed.
(Dundee Courier)
09/06/1887:
Steamer GLOAMIN, from Middlesbrough for Nagapatam, arrived Malta 8 June.
(Glasgow Herald)
24/09/1887:
Steamer GLOAMIN, from Aguilas (Spain) went aground on middle bank of Tay - floated off uninjured.
(Dundee Courier)
06/04/1889:
Steamer GLOAMIN, Pondicherry (India) for Marseilles, arrived Suez 5 April for Suez Canal.
(Glasgow Herald)
09/12/1890:
Queenstown (Ireland) - British steamer GLOAMIN arrived from Taltal (Chile) 28 Nov. After terrible passage, during which two seamen (Monteith & Pagoe) were washed overboard and drowned.
(Yorkshire Herald)
Note: Engines, triple expansion with cylinder diameters of 19", 30", and 50", length of stroke 42", boiler pressurte 170lb., 170 HP.
