COLLINGWOOD
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
DateJune 1872
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 211.1' x breadth 34.8' x depth 21'
gross tonnage 1064 ton
gross tonnage 1064 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000377
Keywords
Fate: Sunk 12 March 1917 by German submarine U-62 while under Norwegian colours, no casualties.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 3 masts, 2 decks.
Owners:
1872: Devitt & Moore, London
1910: Akties Collingwood (O. Gotaas), registered at Christiana, Norway.
Masters:
1873-74: Master S. Calthrop
1874-75: Master A. P. C. Ross
1880-83: Master H. N. Forbes
1910: Master L. A. Larsen.
Voyages:
1873-74: London-Australia
General History:
13/11/1872:
COLLINGWOOD, ship, London for Melbourne, 35 days out 12 Oct., in, 20W [Mid Atlantic between West Africa and Brazil].
(Aberdeen Journal).
24/07/1875:
New Zealand - ship COLLINGWOOD, with 286 immigrants, arrived 10th and has been put into quarantine. There were 20 deaths on the voyage and now 50 cases in hospital. The doctor had been stricken with the fever, but is now recovered. Some officers are also sick.
(Singleton Argus (NSW))
27/01/1879:
Ship COLLINGWOOD, now at Melbourne, has been chartered to load wheat at Port Pirie [Spencer Gulf, South Australia].
(Launceston (Tasmania) Examiner)
10/07/1885:
COLLINGWOOD, British ship, from London, has arrived Adelaide with loss of fore and main topmasts.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
27/10/1886:
At anchorage ship COLLINGWOOD loading wool for London.
(Border Watch (Mount Gambier, S. Australia))
04/10/1888:
Hobson's Bay, 29 Sept. - COLLINGWOOD, ship, 1011 tons, from London 26 June.
(Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury)
06/05/1890:
Passage to Australia - intending passengers invited to inspect elegant saloon accommodation of splendid clipper ship COLLINGWOOD (owned by Messrs Devitt & Moore), sailing from East India Docks for Melbourne about 31 May. Vessel was specially built for conveyance of passengers and offers most desirable opportunity for those travelling for health or pleasure, carries a surgeon.
(Daily News)
13/02/1892:
COLLINGWOOD arrived London 4 Feb., from Melbourne 25 Oct.
(South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide))
30/06/1892:
Mr E. M. Powell, 2nd Officer of ship COLLINGWOOD, informed police he had been robbed in Zoological Gardens of a Bank of England £10 note and some private papers while he was admiring the animals on view.
(Melbourne Argus)
07/09/1892:
At Wellington Police Court Frank Northey, Master of ship COLLINGWOOD, was fined £1 for having no watch on board on night of 25 August.
(Melbourne Argus).
11/02/1893:
Ship COLLINGWOOD arrived London 9 Feb., from Melbourne 26 Oct.
(Sydney Morning Herald).
11/10/1894:
Arrived Sydney ship COLLINGWOOD, 1011 tons, Capt. Asgrup, from Port Natal [Durban] 1 Sept.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
30/03/1895:
COLLINGWOOD arrived London 28 March from Sydney 10 Dec.
(S. Australian Register (Adelaide))
19/12/1895:
Projected departures - COLLINGWOOD, barque, 19 Dec. for London [Last ref. found to COLLINGWOOD on London - Australia route].
(Sydney Morning Herald)
16/08/1902:
Barque COLLINGWOOD, which arrived Freemantle [W. Australia] from Madagascar, lost 3 men on voyage owing to outbreak of Beriberi. All crew, except 1st and 2nd Officers were affected.
(Adelaide Advertiser).
COLLINGWOOD's last passage was from the Port of Rasario in Argentina, bound toward Kristiania with a cargo of maize. Sadly, after 45 years of service COLLINGWOOD was sunk by the German submarine U-62 under command Kapitanleutnant Ernst Hashagen (24th August 1885 - 12th January 1947) on the 12th March 1917 some 100-120 miles west of the Scilly Islands; location 49.13N 09.39W. It is recorded that the officers and crew of the U-Boat were drunk with champagne and cognac sourced from the French ship, Jules Gommes which they had sunk two hours previously! COLLINGWOOD's crew were given ten minutes to get clear of the ship; there were no casualties.
(Basil Lubbock (1948 edn), "The Colonial Clippers" (James Brown & Son, Glasgow), pp. 230-31).
