Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
370 grt / 285 nrt / 450om, c500dwt |
156.1 ft |
22.8 ft |
12.9 ft |
|
Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
Engine detail |
2cyl 100nhp, 1-screw
1869 re-engined by Thompson, Boyd & Co, Spring Gardens Engine Works, Newcastle C2cyl 19",34"x26" 80nhp |
|
First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
J Ormston, Newcastle and William Pearson, Hull, |
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |
06/02/1849 |
Other names |
|
Subsequent owner and registration history |
by1867 Tyne Steam Shipping Co, Newcastle 1868 Tyne Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle by9/1881 Thomas Gentles, South Shields - reg South Shields (1883) by1889 T S Blues, South Shields 1889 D/S 'Chevy Chase' - mng H A Haraldsen, Tønsberg - reg Tønsberg 1892 mng Alf Monsen, Tønsberg |
Vessel history |
built for Newcastle-Hamburg service 19/1/1849 on trials 1/2/1849 sailed Greenock for Newcastle 23/2/1849 arrived Newcastle from Hamburg leaking (part cargo jettisoned) 1853 also operated Hull-Continent for Brownlow, Pearson & Co 22/3/1854 off Shields, ran into Sunderland steamer CHAMPION, which sank 1855 on Newcastle-Rotterdam service for Ormston, Dobson & Co 5/4/1855 aground in Molenhaven, Brielle by1867 --grt 254nrt 1869 re-engined and reboilered (and lengthened? 360grt 218nrt, 161.2 x 24.1 x 13.0ft) 27/9/1881 ran into off Whitby (Tyne for Rouen) by French steamer AMITIE |
Remarks |
Allocated in WDB re-organisation as yard number 17. |
End year |
Fate / Status |
1896 |
Collision 04/01/1896 |
Disposal Detail |
4/1/1896 inbound from Christiania, collided in Woolwich Reach, River Thames with steamer RATHLIN; bow heavily damaged. Condemned and later scrapped. |
|
|