INGANE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date25 October 1902
Object NameTUG
MediumIRON AND STEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 110 3/12' x breadth 23 1/12' x depth 11 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 216 ton
Gross Tonnage: 216 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002034
Keywords
Yard Number: 360
Official Number: 101572
Subsequent Names: JOAO COUTINHO (1906); POLANA (1925)
Fate: Deleted from Lloyd's register 1986.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron and Steel twin screw tug, 1 deck.
Owners:
1902: John Thompson Rennie
04/1906: Owners Portuguese Government, PoR Laurenco Marques.
1925: Owner Governor General of the Province of Mozambique.
1923-82: Owner Capitania do Porto, Laurenco Marques (captial of Mozambique, renamed Maputo after 1975).
General History:
25/03/1902: Launched. Named by Miss Wood, daughter of the J. T. Rennie’s manager.
14/04/1902: Trial trip in Aberdeen Bay. Departed for Natal.
18/04/1902: Sailed from Plymouth for Natal.
26/04/1902: At Madeira.
16/05/1902: At Luanda for Natal.
1986: Deleted from LR.
Notes:
HR Order Book (o) [Aberdeen City Archives]: - Built of best iron – class 100A1. Fitted with steam windlass, steam steering gear and two sets of compound engines. All boiler mountings complete, 2 reply telegraphs from bridge to engine room, 2 starting and reversing engines, 2 duplex donkey and piping for pumping fresh water from tanks to vessels alongside, 1 duplex donkey for feeding boiler and pumping bilges & c. and 2 spare cast iron propellers, 2 spare tailshafts complete and usual outfit for such a vessel.
Equipped with Martin’s patent stockless anchors.
Meaning of the name INGANE – (Zulu) An infant, baby or small child.
Engine details: Steam by twin screw, two inverted, surface condensing compound engines, each 11½” x 27” with 20” stroke, 542 i.h.p., 74 r.h.p. by H.R. 11 knots per hour on trials.
Boiler: number 1 S.B.; heating area (ft^2) 1391; diameter 12' 6"; length 10' 0"; furnaces 3 patent welded 3’ 1” dia.; pressure (p.s.i.) 130
Propeller: 2 x 6’ 4” dia. diameter, solid, bronze.
Cost & extras: £8,250. Extra £65 for steel casing. Stewards’ h&c £25? (entry not clear)
History (CS): - Screw Steamer INGANE built by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd in 1902 for Chiazzario & Co. - Chiazzario & J. T. Rennie, Durban, Tug (clydeships.co.uk)
This vessel is not listed in “A Century of South African Steam Tugs”. ISBN0-620-16649-5.
CHIAZZARI & Co., Port Natal
1865 Joseph Chiazzari (an Italian) set up in business as a lighterman at Port Natal.
Agreement with Rennie as stevedore, shipping, landing and forwarding contractor.
Nicholas Chiazzari (son of Joseph) served as a Commander in the RNVR during the Boar war and was awarded the DSO for service at Ladysmith.
1906 Nick set up in business at Laurenco Marques as Chiazzari & Co., agents for Rennie and Lloyds Agent, supplying cargo landing and shipping services.
1916 South African Railways and Harbours took over lighterage, landing and shipping all cargo, ending Chiazzari’s work in Durban. Chiazzari & Co. wound up.
“The House of Rennie”
100 years of Shipping 1849-1949. NMM Catalogue No. 347 792
Printed by William Brown & Davis Ltd., 475 – 481 South Street, Durban.
Photograph available. http://rapidttp.co.za/museum/jmmc/jmmcp.html
Photographs in Aberdeen City and Shire Archive: - HR/2/7/421/43/1 to /8, 447, 456, 457/9 & 12 and 458 (various).
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/1
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/2
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/3
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/4
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/5
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/6
Readying one engine for lifting.
© Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/7
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/421/43/8. Under steam at Mearns Quay.
