Length (feet) : | 325.0 |
Breadth (feet) : | 40.0 |
Depth (feet): | 26.5 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 3045 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | 1982 |
Engine Type : | 150hp C.2.Cy 39 & 77 -48 80lb 70lb |
Engine Builder : | Blair, Stockton-on-Tees |
Additional Particulars : | two deck; iron screw brigatine; 5 bulkheads |
Official No. 86970: Code Letters HWSN.
Owners: 1883 Herskind & Woods, West Hartlepool; 1892 W Runciman & Co (Newcastle-on-Tyne) West Hartlepool; 1897 G Vallee, Rouen, France–renamed Sully; 1904 F Dalmazzoni, Livorno–renamed Tirreno.
Masters: 1883-93 G Veale; 1894 Frederick Fair (b. 1861 North Shields C.N. 013704 Sunderland 1889); 1894 Carl Christian Bruhn (b. 1854 Denmark C.N. 03125 Shields 1883); 1895 W Harroway; 1897 W Sandison; 1899 Ailliet.
Bound from Newport News for Hamburg with a cargo of grain & a crew of 27 Aspatria had her decks swept & rudder carried away during a Force 9 WNW gale in the North Atlantic on 31 January 1894. One life lost.
More detail »Fritz Herskind owned ships from the early 1870's. Herksind & Woods was formed in 1884 between Fritz and Peter Herskind and James Jabez Woods. The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent on the 20th August 1892. On 31st August 1892 the Company became known as Herskind & Co. with the main shareholders Fritz and his father Peter.
Five of Fritz's early ships were built by Matthew Pearse and two by Ropner. All of his subsequent ships were built in West Hartlepool and all appear to have been purchased new.
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