Alastor was a barque built 1875, official No 69930. Broken up Grays, 1952.
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Re: Alastor
Built as an iron barque under yard No 76 by Mounsey & Foster, Sunderland for R.H. Penney, Southwick Shoreham.
October 1875 launched as the ALASTOR.
Tonnage 860 grt, 797 nrt, dim. 196.6 x 31.7 x 18.6ft.
Barque rigged with a main skysail.
After delivery in 1875 was she chartered by Shaw, Savill & Co., London for several voyages to New Zealand.
12 February 1879 she left London and after a passage of 107 days she arrived 0n 30 May 1877 in Auckland, under command of Captain Glagebrook.
In 1888 was she dismasted in a hurricane and called at Port Louis, Mauritius for repair.
In 1889 she made another fast voyage from London to Nelson, New Zealand in 103 days.
Altogether she made 10 voyages under charter by Shaw, Savill & Co. to New Zealand only the voyage 1879 she is mentioned in White Wings, Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1840 – 1902, but more voyages she carried passengers to New Zealand.
1895 Sold to M.F. Stray of Kristiansand, Norway she was later sold to Hans Hansen in Brevik, Norway.
1928 Sold to Karl Schroder et al., of Hanko, Finland
1934 She made a voyage from the Gulf of Bothnia to late in the season, and was laid up during the winter in Tollesbury, Essex, U.K.
1939 Laid up on the Blackwater River, Essex U.K.
1941 Was she taken round to the Crouch and used as an accommodation ship at Burnham, another source gives she was at that time a depot ship for landing craft training at Burnham-on-Crouch during the war.
23 April 1942 off Brightlingsea and used by the crew of HMML 345 for training.
1944 Was she moored off Bradwell as a base for the Army River Patrol.
She was used by the landing craft based at HMS HELDER at Point Clear for practice to come alongside the ALASTOR.
And she was visited by many personnel of that base to become familiar with a ship.
1945 Was she moored in the Blackwater River.
1946 Sold to Captain W. Lancaster and the ALATOR was towed to Ramsgate to be used as a restaurant, renamed BOUNTY.
March 1951 towed upstream the River Thames to Rotherhithe to be a Festival of Britain attraction, but the project failed.
1952 Scrapped at Grays on the River Thames.
Source: Miramar. Watercraft Philately 48-35. Various web-sites.
October 1875 launched as the ALASTOR.
Tonnage 860 grt, 797 nrt, dim. 196.6 x 31.7 x 18.6ft.
Barque rigged with a main skysail.
After delivery in 1875 was she chartered by Shaw, Savill & Co., London for several voyages to New Zealand.
12 February 1879 she left London and after a passage of 107 days she arrived 0n 30 May 1877 in Auckland, under command of Captain Glagebrook.
In 1888 was she dismasted in a hurricane and called at Port Louis, Mauritius for repair.
In 1889 she made another fast voyage from London to Nelson, New Zealand in 103 days.
Altogether she made 10 voyages under charter by Shaw, Savill & Co. to New Zealand only the voyage 1879 she is mentioned in White Wings, Immigrant Ships to New Zealand 1840 – 1902, but more voyages she carried passengers to New Zealand.
1895 Sold to M.F. Stray of Kristiansand, Norway she was later sold to Hans Hansen in Brevik, Norway.
1928 Sold to Karl Schroder et al., of Hanko, Finland
1934 She made a voyage from the Gulf of Bothnia to late in the season, and was laid up during the winter in Tollesbury, Essex, U.K.
1939 Laid up on the Blackwater River, Essex U.K.
1941 Was she taken round to the Crouch and used as an accommodation ship at Burnham, another source gives she was at that time a depot ship for landing craft training at Burnham-on-Crouch during the war.
23 April 1942 off Brightlingsea and used by the crew of HMML 345 for training.
1944 Was she moored off Bradwell as a base for the Army River Patrol.
She was used by the landing craft based at HMS HELDER at Point Clear for practice to come alongside the ALASTOR.
And she was visited by many personnel of that base to become familiar with a ship.
1945 Was she moored in the Blackwater River.
1946 Sold to Captain W. Lancaster and the ALATOR was towed to Ramsgate to be used as a restaurant, renamed BOUNTY.
March 1951 towed upstream the River Thames to Rotherhithe to be a Festival of Britain attraction, but the project failed.
1952 Scrapped at Grays on the River Thames.
Source: Miramar. Watercraft Philately 48-35. Various web-sites.
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