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HILDEBRAND

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

Date30 May 1893

Object NameSCREW STEAMER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 261' x breadth 36 1/12' x depth 25'
Gross Tonnage: 1947 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001913

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 270
Official Number: 102096
Subsequent Names: HUAYNA (1910); HILDEBRAND (1911); MARCHFORD (1917); MANUEL CARSI (1920)

Fate: MANUEL CARSI sank off Cabo Torinana, 19 May 1921, on a voyage with a cargo of coal from Gijon Musel, N. Spain to Seville, S. Spain .

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Cargo and passenger vessel, 1 deck and spardeck and web frames. Electric light fitted.

Owners:
Booth Steamship Co., Liverpool (Manager A. Booth & Co.)
19/10/1907: Transferred to Iquitos S. S. Co., Liverpool.
By 1915: Reverted to Booth S. S. Co. Ltd., ownership, but retained Iquitos name.
22/04/1917: Requisitioned by Admiralty, Q-ship. Armament 2 x 4” and 2 x 12 pdr. guns.
Although named MARSHFORT, it also used the names: - HILLCOLLOW, HUAYNA, SENLEY.
13/05/1919: Returned to owners.
1919: Owners Dutrus y Carsi, Valencia.

Masters:
1893-98: Master J. Martin

General History:

30/05/1893: Launched. Named by Mrs Garland, wife of one of the owners.

22/06/1893: Order No. 00.93
Extras for new build.
1. Portable wooden bulkheads in main hold and tween decks, 2 ventilating casings. Fore yard mounted complete, fore square sail and jib headed sail with all blocks, running gear & c. supplied and fitted, all as specified in offer of 27th April and contract. Cost £165
2. Two cast iron coaling hatches 4’ x 3’ 6” x 12” on spar deck fitted with wooden cover & c., all as specified per contract of 13th June. Cost £32.
(Hall, Russell Order Book (Aberdeen City Archive))

22/06/1893: Sailed from Aberdeen for Newcastle to coal and onward for Liverpool.
Crewman Lachlan Watson (43) caught by rope while leaving port and broke his right leg in two places, requiring the ship to return to Aberdeen to land him for treatment.

12/07/1893:
Steamer HILDEBRAND sails today from Liverpool for Ceara and Para [Brazil].
(Liverpool Mercury)

02/12/1893:
Steamer HILDEBRAND from Ceara arrived Liverpool.
(Freeman's Journal)

05/03/1894:
HILDEBRAND arrived Liverpool from Maranham [Brazil].
(Freeman's Journal)

13/03/1894:
HILDEBRAND sailing today from Liverpool to Ceara and Para.
(Liverpool Mercury)

21/05/1894:
HILDEBRAND sailed Para for Liverpool. [03/05/1894: Left Madeira for Lisbon, 01/06/1894: Arrived Lisbon, 07/06/1894: Arrived Liverpool]
(Freeman's Journal)

17/12/1894:
Arrived Hamburg ex Liverpool.
(Freeman's Journal)

31/01/1895:
Left Para for New York.
(Freeman's Journal)

Notes:
Possible WW I confusion with later Booth Line HILDEBRAND (Scott, 1911) which served as armed merchant cruiser in WW I.
Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 21” x 33” x 54” with 39” stroke, 1425 i.h.p. on measured mile, 190 n.h.p., by H.R.
Boiler: 2 single-ended steel boilers; heating area (ft^2) 2982; diameter 13'; length 10' 4"; 6 Brown's 3' 1 1/2" diameter furnaces; pressure (p.s.i.) 160
Propeller: 14' 3" diameter, solid-cast iron.

32 first class and 50 second class passengers. Electric light by Holmes of Newcastle.
1 deck and sundeck, 4 bulkheads.
Cellular double bottom 124' holding 250 tons water, fore peak tank 70 tons, aft peak tank 40 tons water.

See also:
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51629&vessel=HILDEBRAND
History (SL) - http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/booth.html
WW I Service - https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar2.htm
Wrecksite (WS) - http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?133583