Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

Yard No.:

 118

Name:

 CALEDONIA - Concordia

Year:

 1862

Description:

 Passenger Cargo Ship

Webpage:

 

Picture:

 Yes

Tonnage:

 1,345

Length:

 252

Width:

 33.1 

H.P.:

 360

Type:

 Iron, Single Screw, three masts, one funnel,

Customer:

 Henderson Brothers - Anchor Line

Fate:

 Wrecked 1872

Points of Note:

 Initial Registry: 25th Feb 1862¹

Date of Launch:

 

Notes:

40 1st Class, 90 saloon and 300 steerage passengers.¹

          The Caledonia had a short career. Her maiden voyage was Glasgow-Portland-New York on 25th Feb 1862. She left Glasgow at the beginning of December for Portland and New York and on the 31st ran aground on Cape Cod in thick weather. She had discharged part cargo at Portland and (according to a contemporary report) having consumed much of her bunker coal was light amidships and heavy laden at stem and stern.

          In the gale which blew up soon after the stranding she broke her back "with the report of a cannon". A survey was called. She was condemned and sold at auction by the underwriters for "account of all concerned".

          Bought by Nickerson & Co. of Boston, for $14,000, she was salvaged after two attempts and towed to East Boston where she was rebuilt and became Concordia of the Boston & New Orleans Steamship Line. She was described as being "swift under sail and steam as when she was the Caledonia leaving British waters".

          As the Concordia she served under the Warren Line for a time.

[Anchor Line, R.S. McLellan] [Passenger Ships of the World, Eugene W.Smith]

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