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Hearts of Oak

 

 

J Temperley & Co Ships

 

Captain J L Vivian Millett states

GUILDFORD and BRACADAILE

were sister ships.

 

Guildford / Bracadaile

 

GUILDFORD

ON 86073

Iron screw steamer.

Built March 1882  Palmer's & Co., Ltd., Jarrow, Newcastle.

For Joseph Temperley & Co., Cails Buildings, Newcastle.

Registered Newcastle.

2281 grt.

298ft x 37ft 3ins x 23ft 8ins.

Compound steam engine operating at 90lb/sq in; supplied by shipbuilders.

Two decks, five bulkheads.

1892. Sold to Guildford S.S. Co ( Peterson & Tate ), Newcastle.

1893 December : Wrecked on Neckmann Grund, Gulf of Finland, on voyage Charleston to Reval with cargo of cotton.

 

BRACADAILE

ON 83909.

Iron screw steamer.

Built June 1881  Palmer's & Co., Ltd., Newcastle.

For Joseph Temperley & Co., Cails Buildings, Newcastle.

Registered Newcastle.

2198 grt

292ft x 37ft 3ins x 23ft 8ins.

Compound steam engine operating at 90lb/sq in; supplied by shipbuilders.

Three decks, seven bulkheads.

1902  Renamed HAZELDENE  I. Crocker & Co., Cardiff. Registerd Newcastle

1906 26th December : In a SE Force 8 gale and heavy snow, she was wrecked on Cannon Rock, off South Rock Lightship, County Down, whilst on passage,

Horndillo to Glasgow, with a cargo of scrap iron.

Captain R.C.Begg and his ninteen crew were all saved.

 

Blue Book Report - 1884:  Six hundred twenty-six East Indians arrived on the BRACADAILE from Calcutta, India after having left there on Jun 4, 1884. Mr. Cropper lists 336 adult males, 127 adult females, 14 boys, 7 girls, and 135 infants. The St. Lucian authorities quarantined the ship on arrival because there were thirty cases of cholera on board, twenty had died during the voyage, causing the neighboring islands to quarantine St. Lucia. The ship was sent 6 miles to Gros Islet Bay, and remained there for 12 days until huts were built on Pigeon Island, where the Indians remained an additional 16 days. No mortality occurred during the quarantine. 

The Morning Chronicle, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Tuesday, August 12, 1884 : BRACADAILE arrived at St. Lucia on Aug 11, 1884.

 

 

 

Raymond Forward