Fleet
editList of DSCo ships
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Name | Homeport | Type | Owner/Operator | Year Built | Tonnage | Route | Notes |
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SS Fan Qui | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company James Ash Lane for Lane Crawford & Company |
1860 | 315 GRT | river steamer | Sold to Lane Crawford & Company in 1861.[1] |
SS Leonor | Kingdom of Spain | South America-Macao trade steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company | Unknown | 408 GRT | trade steamer | Sank on September 22 1874 during the 1874 Hong Kong typhoon at the Douglas Lapraik & Company wharf after attempting to steam full astern while at anchor. Foundered and also damaged the wharf with loss of life including that of its Spanish captain.[2][3] |
SS Albay | Kingdom of Spain | South America-Macao trade steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company (Consigned) | Unknown | 260 GRT | trade steamer | Sank on September 22 1874 during the 1874 Hong Kong typhoon at the Douglas Lapraik & Company wharf shorly after arriving in Hong Kong. She was dragged from her moorings without power after previously shutting off her engines, foundered and wrecked.[2][3] |
SS Hai Loong | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company | 1871 | ? GRT[4] | Hong Kong-Tamsui Line | Built at Aberdeen.[5] |
SS Namoa | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company | 1872 | 1,375 GRT[6] | Hong Kong-Swatow Line | Captured by pirates on 10 December 1890, Captain and Chief Officer were killed in attack.[7][8][9][10] |
SS Douglas | Hong Kong | hyrbid passanger and cargo schooner/steamer | Douglas Lapraik & Company Douglas Steamship Company |
1873 | 1,373 GRT | Amoy-Foochow Line | Ran aground and wrecked between Passage Island and the North Tit Rocks in the Haitan Strait on 14 November 1880 while en route to Foochow from Amoy.[11][12] |
SS Formosa | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Steamship Company | 1882 | 1,097 GRT | China trade | Sold to Spanish company Urrtiua & Company and renamed as the SS Cantabria in 1903.[13] |
SS Hai Mun | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Steamship Company | 1896 | 1,248 GRT | China trade | Sold in 1928.[14] |
SS Earl of Douglas | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Steamship Company | 1906 | 3,536 GRT | China trade[15] | |
SS Haiyang | Hong Kong | steamer | Douglas Steamship Company | 1908 | 2,300 GRT | China trade[16] |
See also
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References
edit- ^ "FAN QUI". clydeships.co.uk. Clyde's Ships. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ a b Jones, Michael J. (2017). "23rd September 1874 Typhoon" (PDF). A History of Hong Kong Typhoons - From 1874. Hong Kong: PPP Company Limited: 32. ISBN 978-988-8470-75-4. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Awful Typhoon at Hong Kong". The Mercury. XXV (No. 4426). Hobart Town, Colony of Tasmania: 3. 24 November 1874. ISSN 1039-9992.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Parkinson, Jonathan (2018). The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief (illustrated ed.). Leicester: Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 1788035216.
- ^ The London and China Telegraph: Published Weekly on Arrival of the P. & O. Messageries, and Pacific Mails from China, Japan, Straits Settlements, &c. In Connection with the "London and China Express." A Weekly Summary for the Outward Mails. Vol. XIV No. 436. London: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. 8 January 1872. p. 19.
- ^ Parkinson, Jonathan (2018). The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief (illustrated ed.). Leicester: Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 1788035216.
- ^ Kilpatrick, Ryan (7 February 2018). "HONG KONG THE PIRATE CAPITAL – PART V: HIJACKED ON THE HIGH SEAS". zolimacitymag.com. Zolima Limited. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ "ABERDEEN SHIPPING". digital.nls.uk. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ "Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Thomas Guy Pocock d. 1890". memorials.rmg.co.uk. Royal Museums Greenwich. 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ Ward, Iain (1991). Sui Geng: The Hong Kong Marine Police 1841-1950. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 58–60. ISBN 9622092861.
- ^ "SS Douglas (+1880)". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Bard, Solomon (1993). Traders of Hong Kong: some foreign merchant houses, 1841-1899. Urban Council. pp. 71–72, 125.
- ^ "Formosa SS (1882~1903) Cantabria SS (+1905)". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ "Hai-Mun SS (1896~1928) Eika Maru [+1943]". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ United States Congressional Serial Set. Vol. 5133. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1907. p. 227.
- ^ The Steamship. Vol. 20. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1909. pp. 110, 153.
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