SATZUMA

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1864

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 124' x breadth 24' x depth 14'
gross tonnage 281 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000541

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie jr., Inches, Aberdeen.

Fate: lost on the Nomo peninsula, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, 3 June 1865.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: barque rigged clipper, One and a half poop decks, 3 masts, round stern, carvel built, griffin figurehead.

Owners:
1864: Registered at Aberdeen for owner;
Charles Thomas Glover, 64 shares.
The owner Charles Thomas Glover having all 64 shares, empowered Thomas Blake Glover to sell the ship for a sum of no less that £5000 in any place outside the U.K.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1865: Shimazu Tadayoshi, daimyou of Satsuma.

Master:
1865: Master W. Glover

Voyage:
1865: Aberdeen - Japan

General History:
19/08/1865:
The Loss of the SATSUMA.— The ‘London and China Telegraph' of 8th inst., notices the loss of the Satsuma from this port [Aberdeen since this is quoting the Aberdeen Free Press], as follows : The British barque SATSUMA was lost on the morning of June 3 to the southward and eastward of Cape Namo, about twelve miles from the entrance to Nagasaki. The weatner was so thick and the wind so high at the time that it was impossible to conjecture the position of the vessel. A Court of Inquiry into the circumstances of the wreck sat at the British Consulate on the 6th, but was adjourned to Thursday, June 8. blame is attached to the Captain by the owner or the general public. About half the cargo was saved, and the wreck was sold by auction on the 6th, for the sum of 1,350 dols. She was the property of Mr T. B. Glover, but had been sold for 28,000 dols. to the Prince of Satsuma, to whom she was to have been delivered immediately after her arrival at Nagasaki
(Naval & Military Gazette)