Name: | SIR HERBERT MADDOCK |
Launched: | 29/10/1864 |
Completed: | 13/02/1865 (trials) |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 29 |
Dimensions: | 508grt, 286nrt, 262.4 x 28.2 x 8.0ft |
Engines: | 2 x Oscillating 1cyl (65 x 54ins), 320nhp |
Engines by: | R Morrison & Co, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | Paddle |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1865 | Indus Flotilla Co, India |
No further history known | |
Comments: | This order was a sub-contract from Robert Morrison & Co, Newcastle |
Launched by Miss Denham Christe, the ship was named after the vice chairman | |
of the owners, he was a former Governor of Bengal | |
The full contract was for the tug plus two barges (contracts 30 & 31) | |
Trials speed 15.5 knots, towing barges (lashed alongside); 10.5 knots | |
Contract price £6400; Profit £1197-11s-0d | |
They were built to carry British goods into the Punjab and to bring cotton down river for export back to the Lancashire mills. Also military supplies were also carried | |
Having run trials on the Tyne the ship was then dismantled and shipped out and re-constructed at the owners building yard at Kurrachee launching on 12/10/1866 |