CRUSADER

CRUSADER WAS BUILT BY  C.CONNELL & CO OF GLASGOW  (  ONE REPORTS SAYS IT WAS CASSELL & CO ? ) IN 1865  FOR JOHN LIDGETT.SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 1,055 TONS

HER SHIPS MASTERS WERE CAPTAIN RENAUT &  CAPTAIN R KERR

 SHE WAS CHARTERED BY H T WILSON IN 1866

SHE WAS BOUGHT BY SHAW SAVILLE & CO IN 1869.

SHE WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN C H RENAUT - CAPTAIN CHARLES H RENAUT FIRST WORKED ON HIS FATHERS SHIP AROUND 1848 TRADING TO NEW ZEALAND

HE WAS MASTER OF CELAENO FROM 1867 TO 1873 HE THEN WENT ON TO BECOME MASTER OF THE CRUSADER FROM 1874 TO 1876 AND THEN MASTER OF THE PLEIONE FROM 1876 TO 1887 

TRANSFERRED TO SHAW SAVILL & ALBION IN 1882 ( WHEN THE COMPANY WAS FORMED ) BUT MANAGED BY J W TEMPLE & W SAVAGE OF LONDON SHIP STILL REGISTERED IN GLASGOW

IN 1870 SHE WAS MANAGED BY  J W TEMPLE & W SAVAGE OF LONDON 

SHE WAS SOLD TO A NORWEGIAN COMPANY IN 1898 ( D STEEN OF CHRISTIANIA )  AND WAS SCRAPPED IN 1910 AT DORDRECHT.

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CRUSADER  / GEORGIA

JAMES BAINE'S BLACKBALL LINE OWNED  A VESSEL CALLED CRUSADER (  EX GEORGIA )  FROM 1862 TO 1866

GEORGIA HAD BEEN BUILT IN 1853 AND WAS A VESSEL OF 1,055 TONS SHE WAS RENAMED CRUSADER WHEN SHE WAS SOLD TO THE BLACK BALL LINE .

IN 1866 SHE WAS SOLD TO T WILSON OF LIVERPOOL