GARRAWALT
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1862
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 166' x breadth 30' x depth 18.2'
Gross Tonnage: 627ton
Gross Tonnage: 627ton
Object numberABDSHIP000355
Keywords
Fate: Vessel lost on Pratas shoal, South China Sea, 1 October 1865.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 1 deck, poop and top gallant forecastle, 3 masts, deer figurehead.
Owners:
05/02/1862: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Nicol, shipowner, 28 shares; George Thompson Jr, shipowner, 8 shares; James Buyers, shipowner, 8 shares; Walter Hood, shipbuilder, 8 shares; William Shepherd, shipmaster, 8 shares; [All Aberdeen]; William Nicol, shipowner, Liverpool, 4 shares.
03/06/1863: On death of Walter Hood intestate 27 December 1862, 8 shares to Anne Hood, Spinster, Aberdeen.
30/12/1865: Registry closed.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Masters:
1863-65: Master Shepherd.
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1863: London - China.
1865: London - Australia.
General History:
08/01/1862:
On Wednesday there was launched from the yard of Messrs Walter Hood & Co. a splendid clipper ship the "GARRAWALT". The vessel is of 632 tons, Alexander Nicol Esq. Managing Owner, Commander Captain Shepherd, late of the "ASSYRIA". She is classed A1 at Lloyd's for 14 years and will proceed to Liverpool to lie on for China.
(Aberdeen Journal)
03/03/1862:
By arrival of ship "GARRAWALT", Captain Shepherd, at this post yesterday we learn that "DEPTFORD", from Liverpool to Malta, was in collision on 12th Feb. with a large steamer painted black Lat. 48N, Long. 15W [off Fastnet]. "DEPTFORD" when adrift and in a disabled state was fallen in with by "GARRAWALT" off Barra Head 24th Feb., when the crew, 11 in number, were rescued in a most exhausted state. They received every kind attention at the hands of Captain Shepherd. The "GARRAWALT", a new Aberdeen clipper intended for the China trade, was 21 days in making the passage from Aberdeen to this port.
(Liverpool Mercury)
16/06/1864:
Hobson's Bay - cleared out, GARRAWALT, Ship, 627 tons, W. Shepherd. For London.
(Melbourne Argus)
27/12/1865:
Quoting "Friend of China", 20/10/1865 - the British ship GARRAWALT, 627 tons, with cargo of tea and silk for London from Shanghai fell in with very heavy weather on 20 Sept. when near the Pratas Shoal, which continued until 1st Oct - gale from NNE to E. The ship then struck and became a total wreck on the shoals off the north east point of Hainan [SW China]. The Master (Geo. Phillips) and 2 seamen were drowned. The remainder of the crew got safely on shore. 8 stayed where they landed. The others (17) walked to a place called Now Chow, whence they left for Sui-tong, from where they boarded the British steamer Sir J. JeeJeebhoy.
(Melbourne Argus)
