Tempest (ship)
| TEMPEST | |
|---|---|
| Technical specifications | |
| Flag: |
 Great Britain
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| Ship type: | Passenger ship |
| Builder : | Sandeman & McLaurin ( Glasgow ) |
| Shipping company : | Anchor line |
| Home port : | Glasgow |
| Ship surveying : | 866 GRT |
| Length over all: | 65.28 m |
| Width over everything: | 9.17 m |
| Max. Draft : | 5.79 m |
| Screws: | 1 |
| Chimneys: | 1 |
| Masts : | 3 |
| Drive: | Low pressure steam engines |
| Power: | 150 hp |
| Launch : | December 21, 1854 |
| Maiden voyage : | April 3, 1855 |
| Whereabouts: | Lost after February 13, 1857 |
The Tempest was a passenger ship of the British shipping company Anchor Line put into service in 1855 , which disappeared without a trace on the North Atlantic on a crossing from New York to Glasgow in February 1857 .
history
The 866 GRT passenger and cargo ship Tempest was built in 1854 at the Sandeman & McLaurin shipyard in the Whiteinch district of Glasgow on the River Clyde for the company Handysides & Co. The ship was on 21 December in 1854 as Dreimast- clippers from the stack and was completed on 31 March 1855th On April 3, 1855, under the command of Captain John Henderson , the Tempest made her maiden voyage to Bombay , where she entered on July 17. After this one trip for Handysides & Co., the ship was bought by the newly founded British shipping company Anchor Line based in Glasgow.
In 1856 the Tempest was the shipping company's first ship to be converted into a steamship . It was equipped with low-pressure steam engines that could produce up to 150 horsepower. From then on, it carried passengers and freight on the North Atlantic from Glasgow to New York . She was the first ship of the Anchor Line on this route, with which the company hoped to generate new sources of income.
On October 11, 1856, she made her first trip to New York, where she arrived on November 8. On November 19, she started her return journey, which she completed in 28 days. On December 27, 1856, under the command of Captain James Morris, she docked in Glasgow for her second and last voyage to New York. The Tempest arrived there on February 1st . She had 50 people on board.
On Friday, February 13, 1857 (according to other sources on February 26), the Tempest left New York for her second Atlantic crossing in an easterly direction. 150 passengers and crew were on board. The ship disappeared without a trace on the Atlantic Ocean and never arrived in Glasgow. The whereabouts of the ship and its passengers are unclear. Some sources mention that the Tempest fell victim to an Atlantic storm .
See also
Web links
- Technical data in the shipping database Clydebuilt Ships Database (English)
- Overview of the rides of the Tempest with a secondary link to a blog discussion (English)
- The history of the Anchor Line with references to the Tempest , her first steamboat (English)
- Information about the Anchor Line with a list of their vessels (English)