GARTHDEE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1890
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 190 3/6' x breadth 28 1/12' x depth 14 1/12'
Gross Tonnage: 679 ton
Gross Tonnage: 679 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001901
Keywords
Yard Number: 258
Official Number: 94546
Fate: Stranded at Peterhead on 22 October 1908, 50 yards from the south entrance to the harbour. All 14 crew were rescued by the local rocket apparatus. Salvage was commenced but heavy weather a week later drove it further ashore and GARTHDEE became a total loss.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw cargo vessel, single iron deck and well deck.
Owners:
1890: Aberdeen and Glasgow Steamship Co Ltd, Aberdeen
1906: John Cook of Aberdeen.
Master:
J. Blythe
General History:
30/03/1898:
Telegram from Gibraltar states British steamer GARTHDEE had put in there with her machinery out of order, owners W. Leslie & Co.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
27/09/1898:
Gravesend, 26 Sept. - steamer LINGFIELD collided with steamer GARTHDEE (latter undamaged). Later steamer ROBERT INGHAM collided with GARTHDEE, anchored in lower part of Gravesend Reach. GARTHDEE has bulwark plate, starboard bow, forecastle rails, foretopmast, fore rigging & bridge rails damaged and boats and davits carried away on starboard side.
(Glasgow Herald)
12/10/1899:
British steamer GARTHDEE, from Hamparana [Sweden] for Dover with wood, ran aground off Trekroner battery, but got off after discharging part of her cargo - has sustained no damage and will proceed.
(Morning Post)
16/01/1904: Picked up the sole survivor from the wreck of the S.S. COMMERCIAL.
1905:
New ropeller shaft fitted
06/ 1906:
Passed second no.1 survey
Boiler survey
New donkey boiler installed
Voyages:
07/1907
Aberdeen - Libau (Latvia)
Aberdeen - Danzig (Poland)
08/1907
Aberdeen - Libau (Latvia)
09/1907
Aberdeen - Stettin (Germany)
10/1907
Aberdeen - Konigsberg (Germany, now Russian oblast)
Engine details: Steam, screw, triple expansion, 15"x24"x38" with 30" stroke. 594 i.h.p. by HR.
Boiler: Steel, diameter 12'6", length 10'4", 160 psi. 3x36" furnaces, 1385 feet squared heating area.
Cast iron propeller, 10'10 and one half" diameter, solid.
18/07/1893: New cast iron propeller supplied by Hall, Russell, under Order No. 00.93. Cast iron, bored out in centre and key seat cut. Cost £43.
