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BOMBAY / PROFESSOR GRUVEL

BUILT IN 1882 BY MITCHELL'S IN NEWCASTLE FOR NELSON DONKIN & CO. SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 3,130 TONS AND THE SISTER SHIP TO THE FLORIDA. HER OFFICIAL NUMBER WAS 86976.SHE HAD AN IRON HULL, THREE MASTS, TWO DECKS AND WAS FITTED WITH A COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE.SHE WAS REGISTERED IN LONDON. IN 1883 SHE DID TWO RETURN VOYAGES FOR SHAW SAVILL FROM LONDON TO LYTTLETON AND WELLINGTON VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.CAPTAIN SELLERS HAD COMMAND OF THIS VESSEL FOR A WHILE. IN 1910 SHE WAS SOLD TO A NORWEGIAN COMPANY ( AKTIES NOR, WITH J CHRISTENSEN AS MANAGERS )  WITH  NO CHANGE OF NAME. IN 1922 SHE WAS SOLD AGAIN, THIS TIME TO A/S CONGO ( STILL MANAGED BY J CHRISTENSEN ) AND  RE-NAMED PROFESSOR GRUVEL.SHE WAS CONVERTED INTO A WHALE OIL REFINERY VESSEL AND SHE WAS ALSO EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS AND AN ELECTRICAL GENERATOR AT THIS TIME.ON THE 12TH OCTOBER 1927 WHILE ABOUT 600 MILES SOUTH OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS SHE STRUCK AN ICEBERG, AND SANK.

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BOMBAY 

THERE WAS ANOTHER  SHAW SAVILL CHARTERED VESSEL, ALSO CALLED BOMBAY.

BUILT FOR G.D TYSER AND CHARTERED TO SHAW SAVILL & CO. IN 1862 .SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 937 TONNES.THE SETTLEMENT OF 'BOMBAY', ABOUT THIRTY MILES FROM AUCKLAND WAS NAMED AFTER HER.ON HER SECOND TRIP TO AUCKLAND IN 1864 SHE ENCOUNTERED BAD WEATHER MOST OF THE WAY, BEING TAKEN INTO TOW BY THE CIRCULAR SAW VESSEL CONSTANCE, OUT OF SYDNEY.WHEN ALMOST INTO AUCKLAND SHE WAS TAKEN INTO TOW BY  H,M.S CURACAO,WHO TOWED HER INTO AUCKLAND HARBOUR.IT TOOK H NICCOL & SONS FOUR MONTHS TO REPAIR THE VESSEL.

 SHE MADE FOUR VOYAGES TO NEW ZEALND EACH TIME CAPTAIN G SELLARS BEING IN COMMAND.

SAILED FROM LONDON ON JUNE 16TH 1862 ARRIVING IN DUNEDIN SEPTEMBER 10TH 1862

SHE SAILED FROM LONDON ON 2TH AUGUST 1863 ARRIVING IN AUCKLAND ON THE 8TH DECEMBER 1863.

SHE SAILED FROM LONDON ON 26TH NOVEMBER 1864 ARRIVING IN AUCKLAND ON 18TH MARCH 1865

SHE UNDERTOOK  A TRIP TO LYTTLETON IN 1866.

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BOMBAY

THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER VESSEL CALLED BOMBAY WHICH HAD DONE A TRIP TO NELSON IN 1842, AND POSSIBLY SHE WAS IN BLUFF IN 1863 ( VESSELS COULD BEAR THE SAME NAME UP UNTIL ABOUT 1906, WHEN THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT CAME INTO FORCE PREVENTING THE USE OF DUPLICATE NAMES ) THIS VESSEL TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE WAS NOT ON A SHAW SAVILLE & CO CHARTER. 

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BOMBAY

BOMBAY WAS A WOODEN  VESSEL OF 890 TONS BUILT AT DUMBARTON SCOTLAND IN 1859  AND OWNED BY J KERR SHE HAD BEEN REGISTERED IN GREENOCK. HER MASTER WAS CAPTAIN GALLOWAY AND THEN LATER CAPTAIN D McCLEOD AND SHE WAS USED ON THE GLASGOW TO NEW ZEALAND ROUTE