ELDERSLIE / ELLAMY

THIS VESSEL WAS CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILL & ALBION IN JANUARY 1885 FOR ONE VOYAGE FROM LONDON TO OAMARU

ELDERSLIE BELONGED TO TURNBULL, MARTIN & CO  AND WAS A VESSEL OF 2,761 TONS, SHE HAD BEEN BUILT BY PALMERS OF JARROW IN 1884, AND HAD BEEN SPECIFICALLY BUILT TO CARRY FROZEN MEAT FROM NEW ZEALAND.

SHE HAD LIMITED ACCOMMODATION FOR A FEW FIRST AND SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS AS WELL AS BEING EQUIPPED TO CARRY IMMIGRANTS ( PROBABLY IN THE EMPTY CARGO SPACES )

SHE WAS A STEAM SHIP WITH AN IRON HULL, AND HAD SOME REFRIGERATED HOLDS.

SHE WAS FOR, WHATEVER REASON TRANSFERRED TO A SUBSIDIARY COMPANY, THE ELDERSLIE STEAMSHIP CO, WITH TURNBULL, MARTIN & CO AS HER MANAGERS. SHE WAS FREQUENTLY LOADED BY TRINDER ANDERSON AND/OR DEVITT & MOORE.

 IN 1897 SHE WAS SOLD TO THE TALBOT STEAMSHIP COMPANY .

THE FOLLOWING YEAR SHE WAS SOLD TO THE SIMPSON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

SHE WAS RENAMED 'ELLAMY' IN 1900

ON 1ST MAY 1905 WHILE ON A VOYAGE FROM YOKOHAMA TO MOJI IN BALLAST SHE WAS WRECKED AT TOKORO, KIAMI

 ELDERSLIE ( THE PLACE )  IS IN SCOTLAND REPUTEDLY THE BIRTHPLACE OF WILLIAM  ( BRAVEHEART ) WALLACE.

 

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