OLIVER CROMWELL
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1847
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 148 1/3' x breadth 24 7/12' x depth 18 5/6'
Registered Tonnage: 478ton
Registered Tonnage: 478ton
Object numberABDSHIP000319
Keywords
Fate: Damaged off the South African Indian Ocean Coast, June 1868, later condemned.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, One-and-a-half poop decks, three masts, male figurehead.
Owners:
11/01/1847: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thompson Jr., shipowner, Aberdeen, 48 shares; Alex. Alexander, shipmaster, 16 shares.
30/04/1853: Registered de novo at London.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1865: Holderness & Co, registered at Liverpool.
1866: S. C. Maddock.
Masters:
1848: Master Alexander.
1857: Master W. Mitchell.
1861-63: Master Lawson.
1865-68: Master Balmanno.
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1848: Aberdeen - Sydney.
1856: London - Australia.
1861-63: Aberdeen - Australia
1865: Liverpool - S. America.
1866-67: London - India.
General History:
03/08/1850:
(Detailed cargo manifest, U.K. - Australia)
Ship, 478 tons, Capt. Alexander, from Glasgow (at Sydney).
Cargo manifest includes:-
100 boxes pipes
20 casks porter
10 casks ale
73 packages paints
15 tons castings
50 tons pig iron
1 box hats
210 firkins
80 boxes herrings
188 kegs, 90 quarter-barrels gunpowder
20,000 fire bricks
4 crates earthenware
50 barrels cement
15 barrels oat-meal
146 half-barrels herrings
24 parcels spades
25 quarter-casks whiskey
73 tons pig iron
2068 bars iron
36 bales, 33 boxes paper
4 hogsheads ink
2 boxes slates
6 hogs-heads rum
11 quarter-casks sherry
15 quarter-casks whiskey
12 casks soda ash
70 hogsheads beer
120 hogsheads beer
207 casks bottled beer
50 hogs-heads brandy
288 iron pots
278 ovens and covers
2 casks oatmeal
68 casks herrings
4 cases wine
10,000 slates
(Maitland Mercury)
[in some cases names of businesses to which these items were consigned are given]
(Source: http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.ua/ndp/del/home - Australian Newspapers online)
10/06/1868:
The ship OLIVER CROMWELL passed off Port Natal in a damaged condition, having lost all sail.
(Aberdeen Journal)
22/08/1868:
The OLIVER CROMWELL, ship, from Rangoon to Falmouth, which put into Simon's Bay on June 20 for repairs has been condemned.
(Daily News)
