Tempest (ship)

Tempest
History
Owner: Anchor Line
Port of registry: Glasgow  United Kingdom
Builder: Sandeman & McLaurin
Launched: 21 December 1854
Fate: Vanished c. February 1857
General characteristics
Tonnage: 866 GRT
Length: 214 ft (65 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draft: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion: 150 hp (110 kW) Steam engines

Tempest was the first ship of the Anchor Line belonging to Scottish brothers Nicol and Robert Handyside and Captain Thomas Henderson.[1][2] The 214-foot (65 m), 866-ton ship was built as a sail-ship by Sandeman & McLaurin of Glasgow and launched on 21 December 1854. On 3 April 1855 Henderson began a maiden voyage from Glasgow to Bombay.

The Anchor Line decided to begin transatlantic service between Glasgow and New York with Tempest. She was converted to a screw steamship with the fitting, by Randolf and Elder, of 150 horsepower (110 kW) engines in 1856. Her first passage left Glasgow on 11 October 1856; sailing from New York on 19 November, she returned to Glasgow after a 28-day crossing.

Her second journey departed Glasgow 27 December, mastered by Capt James Morris, with cargo and 50 passengers. She arrived in New York on 1 February. She sailed eastward on 13 February 1857 with crew, cargo and one passenger aboard.[3] She vanished without a trace.[1][4] Her fate remains an unsolved mystery to this day.

Two other ships of the Anchor Line disappeared at sea; United Kingdom in 1869 and Ismailia in 1873.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Flayhart, William H. (2000). The American Line (1871-1902). W. W. Norton & Company. p. 16, 17. ISBN 9780393047103.
  2. ↑ "The Story of the Anchor Line Part One: 1855 - 1869 - The Early Struggles". Clydesite magazine. No. 3.
  3. ↑ "S/S Tempest, Anchor Line". Norway Heritage. Retrieved 2013-07-21. Nb. Some sources claim 150 passengers.
  4. ↑ "The Anchor Line". The Ships List. 30 September 2010.
  5. ↑ Knox, Thomas Wallace (1886). The life of Robert Fulton and a history of steam navigation. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 398.

"Tempest (14231)". Clydebuilt Ships Database. Retrieved 2013-07-21. 

External links

Davis, C. L., Esq. (5 February 2005) [1900]. "Never Heard Of. Mysteries of the Atlantic Ferry". The Ships List. 

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