Length (feet) : | 300.0 |
Breadth (feet) : | 40.1 |
Depth (feet): | 24.5 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 2620 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | 1691 |
Engine Type : | 250hp C.2.Cy 42 & 77 -48 80lb |
Engine Builder : | Blair, Stockton-on-Tees |
Additional Particulars : | two decks; iron screw brigantine. 4 bulkheads |
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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Official No. 84550: Code Letters WMJG.
Owners: 1882 F Herskind, West Hartlepool; 1884 Herskind & Woods, West Hartlepool; 1892 Crown SS Co of Belfast Ltd (W Gibson & Co mgrs) West Hartlepool.
Masters: 1882-92 ER Care; 1892-94 P Coleman.
Olympia sailed from Matanzas on 1 February 1894 bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar & coffee & a total of 25 crew & two passengers & disappeared. She was thought to have foundered off Cape Hatteras during severe storms.
Lives lost 1894:
Chisholm, Norman, carpenteer, Glasgow
Coleman, P, master, Waterford
Cuthall, James, chief engineer
Martin, William, 3rd engineer, Belfast
O’Neill, Charles, mate, Belfast
Taylor, Alexander, 2nd engineer, Craigavad
Tweed, John, 2nd mate, Glynn (near Larne)
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