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Patterdale | Official Number
65857 |
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Patterdale | Official Number
65857 |
The Patterdale was the first vessel built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company, and was launched on 3rd June 1871, for J.D.Newton's Dale Line. She was a full-rigged ship and could carry a deadweight cargo 1800 tons. She was built to Special Survey and had an iron hull, masts and yards, with wire standing rigging. The Patterdale was advertised in Liverpool and Dublin newspapers as being due to sail for the White Star line to Melbourne on the 5th July 1871, under the command of Capt.John Dodd. She arrived there from Liverpool on the 6th October, her voyage reported in the Melbourne newspaper as follows:.
The Argus, Monday, 9th October 1871, page 4;
"The ship Patterdale, which arrived at the Heads
on Friday from Liverpool, anchored in Hobson's Bay on Saturday
afternoon. She is a fine new iron clipper, of 1,200 tons, built to
carry a large cargo and also sail well, and was launched from the yard
of the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company, for Mr.J.D.Newton, of
Liverpool. Her lower masts, and yards, and lower topsail yards are all
made of iron, and on deck she is fitted up with all the newest
mercantile improvements, including engine for condensing and other
purposes, patent windlass, &c. The dimensions of the ship are as
follows: Length, 224 ft.; beam, 36ft.; depth of hold, 21ft 9in.
Although not intended specially for the passenger trade, she has a
comfortable and well-appointed saloon, and in draughting and
workmanship she is a very fine specimen of iron shipbuilding. Her
cargo, a great portion of which is dead weight, is a very large one,
2,300 tons, or nearly double her register tonnage, and this
consequently makes her very deep in the water.
The Patterdale is commanded by Captain John Dodd, who was formerly out here in the Bucton Castle,
and concerning this, her maiden voyage, he reports leaving Liverpool on
July 13th, but put into Holyhead, in consequence of stormy weather,
leaving again on July 16th. Tuscar was passed on July 17th, and
moderate and light variable winds prevailed to the equator, which was
crossed on August 13th, in long 22 deg 30 min.W. The S.E. trades were
very favourable, and were picked up in lat 2deg N, and the ship
on August 24th was in lat.34 deg.S and long.24deg.15 min.W. Variable
winds were then experienced for four days, when a tremendous gale
sprung up from S.E., backing to S.S.W., and accompanied with a very
high sea. The gale lasted for two days with great violence. The
meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed on September 10th in lat
45 deg.31 min.S, and the highest latitude reached was 52deg. Strong
westerly winds with snow, hail, and severely cold weather, prevailed in
running down the easting, and the wind, after culminating in a very
heavy westerly gale, shifted into the eastward on September 28th, and
continued from that quarter until making Port Phillip Heads. The Patterdale will unload her cargo at the railway pier, Sandridge."
The Patterdale continued her voyage by sailing from Melbourne to Newcastle, NSW, in ballast, to take aboard a cargo of coal for San Francisco.
Capt.Alfred James was master of the Patterdale in 1896 and from 1899 to 1900. He died aboard the ship at Ceara on the 30th January 1901.
After the death of J.D.Newton in September 1899 the Dale Line was dispersed and the Patterdale was sold to Simpson Bros., of Swansea. The ship's registration was transferred from Liverpool to Swansea.
The Patterdale went missing with the entire crew, Captain Lockmann and about twenty men, after leaving Newcastle, NSW, bound for Iquique, on the 24th March 1902.
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