MILTIADES
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1871
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 246 11/12' x breadth 39 1/3' x depth 23 1/3'
gross tonnage 1495 ton
gross tonnage 1495 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000376
Keywords
Fate: Towed into Bastia with loss of mainmast on 27 March; taken to Genoa to be broken up. (Lloyds Wreck Returns 1905)
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper
Owners:
Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Henderson, Cornelius Thompson and Stephen Thompson, 44 shares (jointly); George Thompson Jr, 4 shares; James Buyers, 4 shares, and 3 others
(Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
General History:
09/09/1871.
ARRIVAL OF THE MILTIADES
The new iron ship, belonging to Messrs George Thompson and Co.'s celebrated line of Aberdeen packets that arrived in Hobson's Bay on 1st Sept., is named the MILTIADES, and pronounced to be one of the fastest and handsomest ships afloat. The passage
of the MILTIADES, although a quick one, has not comeup to expectations. The MILTIADES is a thorough China clipper on a large scale, with low bulwarks, and fitted with all the latest improvements. Her cabin is a very handsome apartment, capable of accommodating about twenty-four passengers; It is very high, being over 9 feet between the beams, and is well ventilated, both from the sides and deck. On the passage, when in the S.E, trades, the fore and maintopgallant masts were carried away through the outriggers breaking, the main broke in three pieces, the centre piece falling to the deck, and a splinter from it struck one of the apprentices and severely injured him about, the head; he is now, however, getting on very well, of tho passage Captain Peritt reports
that he left Gravesend on the 21st of June, and on the 24th landed the pilot at Dartmouth, at noon of which day a departure of thirty-four miles from the start was taken. During the first part of the passage the log day after day chronicles light airs; and on the 25th day
the pathetic remark 'crossed the line at last' occurs. After that some good running was effected, one day's work bring 361 knots; the average day's run to the equator was 146½ knots, and from the 3rd of August to termination of voyage 254knots; while taking the whole voyage It has been 196 knots.
(Leader (Melbourne, Victoria))
24/11/1879:
MILTIADES, Port Adelaide to Falmouth, Lat 36N, Long 38W [Mid Atlantic SW of Azores], 108 days.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
10/06/1895:
Ship MILTIADES saved crew of ship SALVETH, Melbourne - London, totally destroyed by fire Mid Ocean 18 April, and landed them at Capetown.
(Bathurst [NSW] Free Press)
11/06/1895:
MILTIADES, Ayling, Barry to Port Pirie [near Adelaide], arrived 10 June.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
18/06/1897:
MILTIADES, Ayling, at London from San Francisco 26 May.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
12/10/1897:
MILTIADES, Ayling, at Melbourne from London prior to 20 Sept.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
23/11/1897: MILTIADES, Schleman, left Melbourne for Portland 15 October [L.R. Capt. H.A.W. Schleman].
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
05/03/1898:
MILTIADES, Schleman, left Portland (Oregon) 11 Jan. for U.K.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
02/06/1898:
MILTIADES, Schleman, at London 26 May [via Havre 5 May].
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
06/08/1898:
Captain Robert Ayling's numerous friends will hear with satisfaction that he is again back at the helm of the good ship MILTIADES and is now on his way out to Sydney. During his last voyage to Melbourne in a storm he met with severe injuries and was for a long time in the hospital there. He returned home by the DAMASCUS [94521, Aberdeen White Star Line steamer] and is now almost himself again.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
24/10/1898:
MILTIADES, Ayling, at Sydney 20 Sept. from London.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
19/11/1898 and later dates:
MILTIADES, Ayling, left Newcastle, N.S.W., shortly before 19 Nov. for Taltal [Chile], at Taltal 2 Jan. 1899 and left Taltal for U.K. 11 March.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
25/08/1899:
MILTIADES, Ayling, passed Portland Bill [Dorset], 24 Aug., London for Sydney (at Sydney 4 Dec. left Sydney 27 Jan. 1900, at London 7 May).
[No newspaper ref. 1900-1905].
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
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