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GLASSALT

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1883
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 183' 1" x breadth 26' 3" x depth 14' 1"
tonnage 666 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000578
About MeYard: John Duthie & Sons.
Yard Number 163
Official number: 84374

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steamer, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clencher built, iron frame.

Owners:
20/07/1883: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Aberdeen & Glasgow Steam Shipping Company Ltd., Aberdeen.
25/06/1906: All 64 shares sold to Owen Lewis Harries, shipowner, Swansea.
18/09/1917: All 64 shares to London Transport Company Ltd., London.
1917: Registry transferred to London. (E. J. Heinz manager in 1920)
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1884-85: Master Sutherland
1890-91: Master J. Blyth
1898-99: Master A. Dow
1910-11: Master E. Thomas
1918-19: Master J. Traylor
1920-21: Master R. Hughes

General History:
29/04/1887:
'For some time the steamer GLASSALT has been chartered by Messrs Ellis and McHardy, coal merchants, Trinity Quay, but as the term of the charter expires at the end of May the firm have decided in future to run a steamer of their own.'
(Aberdeen Journal)

Engines by Hall Russell, Aberdeen: 2 inverted compound surface condensing engines, diameter of cylinders 23" and 44", stroke 30", 80 horsepower
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

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