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On This Day: 5th December |
Notable events involving Clydebuilt ships 5th December:
Wrecked today 1893 JASON
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 198
Propulsion: sail
Built: 1870
Ship Type: Sailing
Vessel
Tonnage: 1586 tons
Length: 253
feet
Breadth: 38.6 feet
Draught: 23.2 feet
Owner
History:
Carmicheal
Status: Wrecked - 05/12/1893
Remarks: JASON left Calcutta on 15th February
bound for Boston with a cargo of jute and 27 crew. Whilst crossing the Indian
Ocean she suffered damage to her rigging in a hurricxane but still managed to
reach Mauritius where she was re
rigged. But on the above status date she ran
ashore at Cape Cod in a blizzard and battered to pieces by the sea. Everyone
perished, either swept overboard or frozen to death in the rigging, save for one
apprentice who managed to make shore.
Last updated: by Bruce
Biddulph from the original records by Stuart Cameron
Sunk today 1914
WATERLOO
built by London & Glasgow Eng & Iron Shipbuilding Co,
Yard
No 211
Engines by shipbuilders
Propulsion: 2cy compound steam of 750ihp 9knots
Built:
1879
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Ship's Role: tramp
steamer
Tonnage: 1283 grt
Length: 254 feet
4
Breadth: 33 feet 1
Draught: 18 feet 7
Owner
History:
A C Gow & Co Glasgow
Status: Sunk -
05/12/1914
Remarks: 1894 to MacBeth&Gray
Glasgow 1895 Wilhm Wilhemsen. Foundered off Lands End on passage nEWPORT mON TO
rOUEN.
Last updated: by Colin Campbell from the original records
by Stuart Cameron
Sunk today 1917 ss
APAPA
built by Harland & Wolff Ltd Govan,
Yard No 443G
Engines by By Builder
Propulsion: Twin screw, 2x4 cyl. 516 NHP 14 Knots
Launched:
Wednesday, 30 September 1914
Built: 1915
Ship Type:
Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 7832 grt
Length: 425.7
feet
Breadth: 57.3 feet
Draught: 31.3 feet
Owner
History:
Elder Dempster & Co Liverpool
Status: Torpedoed
& Sunk - 05/12/1917
Remarks: Torpedoed
and sunk off Anglesey with the loss of 77 lives.
Previous update by Stuart
Cameron
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Previous update by Paul
Strathdee
Photo from E.D. Fleet History
Previous update by Paul Hunter
Last updated: by Paul Hunter from the original records by Stuart
Cameron
Arrived Dalmuir today for scrapping 1952: ts ORMONDE
built by John Brown Clydebank,
Yard No 425
Engines by
Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, Barrow
Propulsion: 4 Steam Turbines SR geared to twin screws. Speed 18 knots / 4
Double Ended and 2 Single Ended Main Boilers supplying steam at Max Pressure
215lbs.
Launched: Saturday, 10 February 1917
Built:
1917
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Ship's Role: UK - Australia
liner
Tonnage: 14982 grt | 8075net
Length: 580.5
feet
Breadth: 66.6 feet
Draught: 40.5 feet
Owner
History:
Orient St Nav Co Ltd Glasgow
Status: Scrapped -
1952
Remarks: Started as troopship so maiden
voyage wasnt until 15th November 1919 London to Australia
278
1st,
195
2nd and 1,000
3rd class passengers
Requisitioned as a troopship in
1939, was in the evacuations from Norway and France. Returned to commercial
service in 1947 as an emigrant vessel to Australia.
Scrapped at Dalmuir
arriving there 5th December 1952.
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Previous update by Paul Strathdee
Partially dismantled at Dalmuir with
demolition completed at Troon May 1953. Additional information from Lloyds List
1950
51 and Joe McMillan Collection.
Last updated: by Gavin
Stewart from the original records by Stuart Cameron
Maiden voyage
today 1918: ss MINNEDOSA
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 518
Engines by Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Last Name: PIEMONTE (1935)
Propulsion: triple screw, 15
knots
Launched: Wednesday, 17 October 1917
Built:
1918
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 13972
grt
Length: 520 feet
Breadth: 67.2 feet
Owner
History:
Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd
Status: Scrapped -
1949
Web site: http://www.greatships.net/minnedosa.html
Remarks:
Photo supplied by above web page
Intended for Hamburg America Line, her keel
laid in 1913 but due to the war did not complete for them. Evenutally completed
as a troop carrier before making her maiden voyage on December 5th 1918 for CPR,
carrying troops back home to Canada.
Refitted and modernised at Hawthorne
Leslie & Co, Newcastle and tonnage increased to 15,186 grt.
Laid up in
the Clyde 1931 and sold for scrapping in 1935. Bought from the breakers by the
Italian government for use as a troopship. Transferred to Lloyd Triestino in
1938. Bombed by Allies in May 1943 at Messina and half sank. Raised in 1949 and
scrapped at La Spezia
Last updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the
original records by Stuart Cameron
Sunk today 1939 tss HUNTSMAN
built by Charles Connell & Company Scotstoun,
Yard No 385
Last Name: HUNTSMAN
Port of Registry:
Liverpool
Propulsion: 3 DR geared Steam turbines 13
knots
Launched: Tuesday, 05 July 1921
Built: 1921
Ship
Type: Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 8196 grt | 12000 dwt
Length:
482 feet
Breadth: 58 feet
Draught: 35 feet
Owner
History:
Charente S.S Co Ltd (T & J Harrison)
Liverpool
Status: Sunk - 05/12/1939
Remarks: Rescued the crew of Spanish steamer
DELFINA in Irish Sea 10/10/1939.War loss.Captured by German raider GRAF SPEE in
N Atlantic 10 Oct 1939.After use as a supply ship sunk by SPEE 5 Dec in Indian
Ocean First Harrison ship lost during WW2 Calcutta to London. Harrisons lost 29
ships Last of her type 4 masted cargo liner
Previous update by Paul
Strathdee
Previous update by Colin Campbell
Photo supplied by Joe
McMillan Collection
Last updated: by Gavin Stewart from the
original records by Stuart Cameron
Sunk today 1940 ss
PRIVET
built by Scotts Bowling,
Yard No 339
Engines by
Aitchison & Blair Clydebank
Propulsion: triple expansion 3cy
Launched: Thursday, 17
September 1936
Built: 1936
Ship Type:
Coaster
Tonnage: 360 grt
Length: 142 feet
Breadth:
23 feet
Draught: 10 feet
Owner History:
James
Fisher
Status: Sunk - 05/12/1940
Remarks: With thanks to Anne Parry for
confirmation of vessel's fate, her uncle Samuel Parry was master, he, at the age
of 40, went down with the PRIVET and is listed with the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission
Previous update by Stuart Cameron. sailed for Belfast from
Birkenhead and lost
Previous update by Colin Campbell
Last
updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the original records by Stuart
Cameron
Sunk today 1971 ex HMS CADIZ
built by Fairfield Govan,
Yard No 711
Last Name: KHAIBAR
Propulsion: Steam turbine
50000shp
Built: 1945
Ship Type: Destroyer
Tonnage:
2315 disp
Length: 379 feet
Breadth: 40 feet
Owner
History:
Royal Navy
Status: Sunk - 05/12/1971
Remarks: Sunk during Indo/Pakistan
war
Last updated: by Paul Strathdee from the original records by
Stuart Cameron
Arrived Bilbao for scrapping today 1975 ex TIBETAN
built by Charles Connell & Company Scotstoun,
Yard No 474
Engines by Barclay Curle & Co Ltd
Last Name: NORTHERN SHELL (1961)
Port of Registry:
HamiltonBermuda
Propulsion: Doxford oil 2SA 6cy 8500bhp 15.5 knots
machy aft
Built: 1954
Ship Type: Tanker
Tonnage:
12608 grt
Length: 556 feet 2
Breadth: 73 feet
2
Draught: 29 feet 7
Owner History:
Wlhm Wilhelmsen
Oslo
Status: Scrapped - 05/12/1975 arr Bilbao
Remarks:
Previous update by Stuart Cameron
Previous update by Colin Campbell
Last updated: by Colin
Campbell from the original records by Stuart Cameron
Sunk today
1988 mv BOWSPRITE
built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company,
Yard No 523
Engines
by Mirrlees National Co Ltd Stockport
Port of Registry: Cardiff
Propulsion: Oil 4SA 8cy 1864bhp 12.25
knots machy aft
Launched: Monday, 14 November 1966
Built:
1967
Ship Type: Sand suction Dredger
Tonnage: 1503
grt
Length: 264 feet 0
Breadth: 45 feet 9
Draught:
14 feet 1
Owner History:
British Dredging (Sand & Gravel) Ltd
London
Status: Sunk - 05/12/1988
Remarks: Sank after splitting in two in heavy
weather 14 miles off Nieuwpoort, Belgium. 4 crew members perished
Previous
update by Colin Campbell
Last updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the
original records by Stuart Cameron
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