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The tallship HERSCHEL was built in 1857 as the iron screw steamer EDITH BYRNE by the Canada Works, at Birkenhead. In March 1865, she was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for 8,250 pounds by the Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who removed her engines and renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1860.[1]
Her measurements as a sailing vessel:
- 333 Commerzlasten/787 tons;
- 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold).
Masters:
- 1865-1866 - P. Kölln
- 1866-1875 - E. A. Friedrichs
- 1875-1878 - J. J. Kammann
- 1878-1880 - J. G. W. Koch
- 1881/82.. - P. T. Wüpper
- ..1886/87 - R. Rambusch
- ..1889.. - W. Kniphoth
Voyages: Specific voyages include:[2]
- Hamburg - Hervey Bay 1 December 1871 ➜ 4 March 1872
- Hamburg - Port Adelaide 25 September 1876 ➜ 11 January 1877
- Shields - Port Adelaide 1892 ➜ 18 March 1892
Her locations shown in registration documents show that she was a global voyager:
- 1865/66 - from Liverpool/intermediate ports/Antwerp
- 1866 - New York/Baltimore
- 1866/67 - New York/Antwerp
- 1867 - Bremerhaven
- 1867 - New York
- 1868 - New York/Altona
- 1868 - New York/Philadelphia
- 1869 - New York
- 1869 - New York/Bremerhaven
- 1869/70 - New York
- 1870/71 - New York
- 1871 - New York (2x)
- 1871/73 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Amsterdam/Cuxhaven
- 1873/74 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Cardiff
- 1874/75 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Greenock
- 1875/76 - Wellington/Peru/Hamburg
- 1876/78 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/Huanillos
- 1878/80 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Corinto, Nicaragua
- 1881/82 - Valparaiso/Antofagasta
- 1882/86 - Middlesborough/Yok/intermediate ports/Iquique
- 1886/87 - Callao/Dunkirk
- 1887 - Napier (New Zealand)/intermediate ports ...
On 1 June 1891, the HERSCHEL (II) was sold to Hartvigsen, of Arendal, Norway.[3][4]
In Feb 1893, the vessel was owned by the Adelaide Steamship Co. & converted to a coal hulk at Port Adelaide and towed to West Australia (9 Feb). Later: Believed to have been stripped and scuttled at Jervoise Bay, south of Woodman's Point, Cockburn Sound.[5]
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