GREYFRIARS
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1894
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 240 7/12' x breadth 34 1/12' x depth 15 5/12'
Gross Tonnage: 1285 ton
Gross Tonnage: 1285 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001940
Keywords
Yard Number: 282
Official Number: 104501
Subsequent Names: BJARMIA (1902); KUSTAS (1929); BALTONIA (1937); ORKAN
Fate: Sunk by a mine laid by the Russian submarine LEMBIT, in Greifswalder Oie, Swinemunde (the Baltic Sea) 30 May 1942.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Cargo vessel, 1 deck, forecastle 29', bridge deck 104', quarterdeck 84'
Owners:
1894: Leslie S.S. Co. Ltd., registered at Aberdeen.
1906: Wasa Nordsjo Angbats Bolag, registered Wasa.
1918-19: Shipping Controller, London.
1920: Wasa Nordsjo Angbats.Aktieb and registered in Wasa.
1925: Finska Ang.Akt, registered in Helsingfors.
1929: Johyn Rosenfield & Co., Crown Steamship Company, renamed KUSTAS.
12/1937: was sold by F. Roosvee, Tallinn to Carl F. Gahlnbeck for £10,000 and renamed.
1942: Owned by German government, renamed ORKAN.
Masters:
1894: Master G. Stephen
1903-05: Master J. Davidson
1906-08: Master H. Halin
General History:
13/08/1894:
Steamer GREYFRIARS loading herring at Regent Quay.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
17/09/1894:
Among arrivals at Aberdeen harbour was steamer GREYFRIARS, owned by Leslie Steamship Co., and launched the other week by Hall Russell and Co. This was vessel's maiden voyage and she comes from Herndsand, Sweden, with cargo of 686 standards of timber, 163 of which on deck - a load which a few years ago would have been the cargo of a very large sailing ship. GREYFRIARS has arrived in excellent trim and, although heavily freighted, is scarcely down in the water to the Plimsoll mark.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
18/9/1899:
Steamer GREYFRIARS, moored at Gravesend (and several other vessels) collided with by steamer BOLSTERNA. Stem of GREYFRIARS damaged.
(Belfast Newsletter)
30/05/1942: SS ORKAN was a cargo steamer of 1,285grt, sailing under the German flag, that was Sunk by a mine laid by the Russian submarine LEMBIT, in Greifswalder Oie, Swinemunde (the Baltic Sea).
Notes:
Engine: Triple expansion engines 3 cylinders of 17", 27" & 45" diameter, 36" stroke, 128 NHP.
(Source: Miramar Ship Index)
1900
