Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1872 | Acacia | Herskind & Co. | |
1872 | Lissabon | Robert M. Sloman | |
1891 | Cette | C. Buske | |
1902 | Acacia | C. Wilkinson |
Arrived for breaking at Appledore in January 1910.
Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday 30th January, 1872:
LAUNCH OF IRON SCREW-STEAMER AT WEST HARTLEPOOL. —Messrs Denton, Gray, and Co., launched from their building yard on Saturday afternoon, a splendidly modelled iron screw steamer of the following dimensions:—Length overall, 237 feet; extreme breadth, 30 feet; depth of hold, 17 feet; gross register, about 1,000 tons. She is to be brigantine rigged, and will be engined by Messrs. Blair and Co., of Stockton-on-Tees, with 110 hp surface condensers. She will class 90A at Lloyd's, and is built to the order of Mr. F. Herskind, West Hartlepool, and, as she glided from the stocks, was christened the Acacia by Mrs R.C. Denton.
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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