Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
HYDASPES (1846)
The British bark HYDASPES was built at New Brunswick in 1846.
504/595 tons (old/new measurement). Measurements (1863): 126.6 x 29.5 x
19.6 ft, length x beam x depth of hold. The annual volumes of Lloyd's
Register of Shipping for 1846/47-1864/65 give the following additional
information on the HYDASPES:
Master:
1846/47-1851/52 - Grebow
1851/52-1853/54 - Steward
1854/55-1856/57 - W. Reid
1857/58-1861/62 - D. Tod
1861/62 - G. Irvin
1861/62-1864/65 - Irwin
Owner:
1846/47-1853/54 - Younghusband
1854/55-1864/65 - Jones & Co.
Port of Registry: Liverpool
Port of Survey:
1846/47-1851/52 - Liverpool
1851/52-1852/53 - London
1853/54 - [not given]
1854/55-1856/57 - Bristol
1857/58 - Shields
1858/59 - London
1859/60 - Liverpool
1860/61-1861/62 - London
1861/62-1864/65 - Liverpool
Destined Voyage:
1846/47-1851/52 - Calcutta
1851/52-1852/53 - Adelaide
1853/54 - [not given]
1854/55-1857/58 - South America
1858/59 - Africa
1859/60 - India
1860/61 - [not given]
1861/62-1864/65 - India
The entry in Lloyd's Register for 1864/65 is posted "wrecked".
[27 May 1999]
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HYDASPES (1852)
Oil painting of the HYDASPES as a ship, after 1868.
Ian Hawkins Nicholson, Log of logs; a catalogue of logs, journals,
shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788
to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding oceans, vol.
2, Roebuck Society Publication No. 47 (Yaroomba, Qld: The Author
jointly with the Australian Association for Maritime History,
1993), p. 224, courtesy of Graeme Broxham, Canberra. To request
a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.
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The steamship HYDASPES (Official No. 25,134) was built for by
C. L. Mare & Co, Blackwall, London, in 1852, and was first registered
at London on 17 January 1853 to the General Screw Steam Shipping Co,
which ran a monthly mail service from Plymouth to Calcutta via St. Vincent,
Ascension, St. Helena, Cape Town, Mauritius, Ceylon, and Madras.
1,361/1,871 tons (exclusive of engine room/gross); 246.5 x 37.3 feet x 25.3
(length x breadth x depth of hold); screw propulsion.
Owner:
1853-1857 - General Screw Steam Navigating Co
1857-1859 - R. W. Crawford & others
1859-1860 - T. Howard
1860-1861 - W. M. Holmes & another
1861-1865 - East India & London Shipping Co
1865-1867 - Capt. R. W. Pelly, RN, & another
1867-1868 - Capt. R. W. Pelly
In 1856, the HYDASPES was readmeasured at 1,726/2,249 tons; 300 hp.
When the HYDASPES was registered to the East India & London Shipping
Co in 1861, her measurements were given as: 1,655/2,095 tons; 263 x 38.7 x
26.1 feet; 300 hp.
In 1868, the HYDASPES was purchased by Park, Bros., who removed her
engines and converted her into a sailing ship. The annual volumes of
Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1868/69-1880/81 give the following
information:
Tonnage: 2,093/2,093/1,501 (net/gross/under deck)
Measurements: 263 x 38.7 x 25 feet (length x beam x depth of hold),
"spar decked" (2 decks and spar deck), 4 bulkheads
Master: E[dwin] S. Babot
Owner: Park, Bros.
Port of registry: London
Port of survey: London
Destined Voyage (through 1873/74):
1868/69-1870/71 - New Zealand
1871/72-1872/73 - [not given]
1873/74 - New Zealand
The HYDASPES spent her career as a sailing vessel in the Australia/New
Zealand trade, often chartered to Shaw, Savill, although on her final voyage
she was chartered to Holder Bros. Sir Henry Brett, White Wings, Vol. 1:
Fifty years of sail in the New Zealand trade, 1850 to 1900 (Auckland: Brett, 1924),
pp. 64-65, prints a precis of 6 voyages from England to New Zealand ports, 1868-1878.
A cursory search of the internet provides the following Australia/New Zealand
arrival dates for the HYDASPES:
| 30 Sep 1869 - |
Lyttelton, from London 04 Jul 1869. Copies of a diary of this voyage by Emma Hodder
are held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, MS Pps 1192; Canterbury
Public Library, Canterbury, New Zealand, ZMS 81; and (including extracts from the
captain's log) Hocken Library, University of Otago, Misc MS 0565. Another diary
of this voyage, by the Rev. Robert Taylor, is held by the Canterbury Museum
Archives. |
| Aug 1870 - |
Melbourne |
| 19 Oct 1873 - |
Auckland, from London 27 Jul 1873. |
| 06 Nov 1874 - |
Auckland, from Gravesend 11 Aug 1874. |
| 01 Sep 1876 - |
Adelaide. Papers concerning this voyage are held by the State Records of
South Australia, GRG 35/48/1876. |
| 09 Nov 1878 - |
Lyttelton, from Plymouth, 10 Aug 1878. |
On 17 July 1880, the HYDASPES, Capt. Babot, bound from London for
Melbourne with 40 passengers (plus 3 stowaways) and a crew of 47, in tow of the
tug NAPOLEON, Capt. William Houghton, sank off Dungeness, after colliding
in a fog with the steamship CENTURION, Capt. George Mitchell, from Almira,
Spain, for London with a cargo of ivory and esparto grass, and a crew of 27; all
the passengers and crew were saved by the tug and the CENTURION.
Sources: Return of Registered Steam Vessels of U.K.,
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1854 (141) lx.224; 1854-55 (473)
xlvi.303; 1857 Session 2 (87) xxxix.67; 1857-58 (488), lii.88; 1860 (449)
lx.449; 1861 (371) lviii.279; 1862 (319) liv.796; 1866 (381) lxv.427;
1867-68 (429) lxiii.30; Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1868/69-1880/81;
Times (London), 19 July 1880, p. 14a; 20 July 1880, p. 10d; 7 August
1880, p. 4e; 12 August 1880, p. 4c; 13 August 1880, p. 4e; 14 August 1880,
p. 4c. The Illustrated London News, vol. 66 (1875), p. 552, prints
an engraving of the HYDASPES, and Brett, op. cit., p. 95,
prints a picture of the ship under sail.
[29 May 1999]