OPAH
Shipbuildervessel built by
DUTHIE
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateDecember 1872
Object NameSCREW STEAMER
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 239'4" x breadth 30'6" x depth 16'7"
tonnage 854 tons
tonnage 854 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000567
Keywords
Official Number: 67344
Subsequent Names: LAGOM (1896 or 1897), VESTMANDRØD (1903)
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1915 (V302).
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Screw steamer, 1 deck, schooner rig, poop deck 137', forecastle 36'.
Owners:
1872-81: Kirby & Co., registered at Newcastle
1882-94: Massey & Sawyer, registered Hull.
1897-1900: Actie-skelskabt, Lagom (F. Ohlsen), registered at Laurvig, Norway.
1902: Actie, Lagom (H. Kunlhe), registered at Bergen, Norway
1904-15: Chr.[istian?] Hannevig, registered at Horten, Norway
Masters:
1872-79: Master G. Dickens
1880-81: Master J. Totherick
1882-84: Master Martin
1885: Master T. R. Lee
1887-94: Master T. Smith
1894-96: Master C. Johansen
1897-1900: Master E. Hummell
1902: Master F. Dahl
1903-05: Master J. Wold
1905-10: Master C. Jonassen
1913-15: Master L. Eriksen
General History:
22/07/1873:
Arrived Gravesend from Hudson.
(Standard)
17/09/1873:
Arrived Quebec 4 Sept. from Cardiff.
(Standard)
09/10/1873:
Off Lizard from Quebec.
(Standard)
18/05/1874:
Screw steamer OPAH, Penny, of Newcastle for Dunkirk, passed Malta all well.
(Western Mail)
02/07/1885:
For Malta, passed Gibraltar 1 July.
(Standard)
30/11/1885:
OPAH, British steamer, from Kotica for Amsterdam, laden with timber, has arrived Ymudien leaking, having struck ground off Texel.
(Glasgow Herald)
04/01/1886:
Stranding of Hull steamer - board of trade enquiry found master of OPAH in default, but having regard to Captain Lee's past and long services without a mishap, refrained from dealing with his certificate and trusted he would exercise greater care and precaution in future.
(North East Daily Gazette)
29/01/1887:
OPAH steamer collided with LAVINIA, trawler, latter sank, crew saved.
(York Herald)
02/12/1889:
Steamer OPAH arrived Leith from Bengazi with 24,000 cwt. barley and 23 bundles ivory.
(Glasgow Herald)
27/06/1890:
OPAH, steamer of Hull, Bengazi-Leith, has landed at Dartmouth with crew of brig MAZEPPA, of Dublin, which she had run down and sunk 20 miles off Start Point. OPAH had 2 plates on port bow smashed.
(Yorkshire Herald)
05/07/1890:
Collision 1a.m. in fresh breeze, Master Smith. [Same incident as previous article.]
(Illustrated London News)
23/12/1893:
OPAH, Wegropoint-Liverpool, arrived Falmouth with lost boats, wheelhouse, charthouse and decks damaged. Captain Range and one man washed overboard and drowned.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
21/02/1894:
Managing owner of Hull steamer OPAH fined £20 and costs at Liverpool for overloading vessel on voyage from Greek archipelago to Granton. In Bay of Biscay Captain and man at the wheel washed overboard.
(Pall Mall Gazette)
29/03/1894:
Steamer OPAH, Manchester-Belfast, stranded at Ballyquiston during fog. Jettisoning cargo. Expected to flood at high water. Assistance asked for.
(Western Mail)
29/03/1894:
Has engines and boilers displaced.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)
31/03/1894:
Floated this morning and is now on way to Belfast in tow of 3 tugs.
(Morning Post)
27/04/1899:
Bordeaux - Reported Norwegian steamer LAGOM, from Cardiff, damaged by collision with steamer, supposed to be fishing boat, abreast of Belle Isle.
(Western Mail)
21/03/1908:
The steamer VESTMANROD, outward from Newcastle for Lisbon signalled off Head this morning that she had been collision with the Grimsby steam trawler SAXON. The latter had already into the Humber with a large hole on the starboard bow.
(Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer)
22/09/1914:
Herrings For Russia.— The Norwegian steamer VESTMANDROD left Peterhead for Archangel on Wednesday with a cargo of 7500 barrels of herrings. Mr Alexander Mowat was the exporter. The cargo is being sent out on speculation, and belongs to about 23 local curers. This is the sixth cargo that has left Peterhead.
(Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser)
Note: Engines by J. Howden & Co. Glasgow, compound inverted 2 cylinders of 27" and 48" diameter, length of stroke 33", boiler pressure 65lb., expected horse power 110.
1881: Replaced by engines from Earles', Co., Ltd, Hull, compound inverted 2 cylinders of 27" and 50" diameter, length of stroke 33", boiler pressure 80lb., expected horse power 98.
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