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Fleet[edit]

List of DSCo ships[edit]

  • The following is an incomplete list of the Douglas Steamship Company fleet. You can help by expanding it.
Name Homeport Type Owner/Operator Year Built Tonnage Route Notes
SS Fan Qui Hong Kong steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company
James Ash Lane for Lane Crawford & Company		 1860 315 GRT river steamer Sold to Lane Crawford & Company in 1861.[1]
SS Leonor Kingdom of Spain South America-Macao trade steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company Unknown 408 GRT trade steamer Sank on September 22 1874 during the 1874 Hong Kong typhoon at the Douglas Lapraik & Company wharf after attempting to steam full astern while at anchor. Foundered and also damaged the wharf with loss of life including that of its Spanish captain.[2][3]
SS Albay Kingdom of Spain South America-Macao trade steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company (Consigned) Unknown 260 GRT trade steamer Sank on September 22 1874 during the 1874 Hong Kong typhoon at the Douglas Lapraik & Company wharf shorly after arriving in Hong Kong. She was dragged from her moorings without power after previously shutting off her engines, foundered and wrecked.[2][3]
SS Hai Loong Hong Kong steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company 1871 ? GRT[4] Hong Kong-Tamsui Line Built at Aberdeen.[5]
SS Namoa Hong Kong steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company 1872 1,375 GRT[6] Hong Kong-Swatow Line Captured by pirates on 10 December 1890, Captain and Chief Officer were killed in attack.[7][8][9][10]
SS Douglas Hong Kong hyrbid passanger and cargo schooner/steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company
Douglas Steamship Company		 1873 1,373 GRT Amoy-Foochow Line Ran aground and wrecked between Passage Island and the North Tit Rocks in the Haitan Strait on 14 November 1880 while en route to Foochow from Amoy.[11][12]
SS Formosa Hong Kong steamer Douglas Steamship Company 1882 1,097 GRT China trade Sold to Spanish company Urrtiua & Company and renamed as the SS Cantabria in 1903.[13]
SS Hai Mun Hong Kong steamer Douglas Steamship Company 1896 1,248 GRT China trade Sold in 1928.[14]
SS Earl of Douglas Hong Kong steamer Douglas Steamship Company 1906 3,536 GRT China trade[15]
SS Haiyang Hong Kong steamer Douglas Steamship Company 1908 2,300 GRT China trade[16]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "FAN QUI". clydeships.co.uk. Clyde's Ships. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Michael J. (2017). "23rd September 1874 Typhoon" (PDF). A History of Hong Kong Typhoons - From 1874. Hong Kong: PPP Company Limited: 32. ISBN 978-988-8470-75-4. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Awful Typhoon at Hong Kong". The Mercury. XXV (No. 4426). Hobart Town, Colony of Tasmania: 3. 24 November 1874. ISSN 1039-9992. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Parkinson, Jonathan (2018). The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief (illustrated ed.). Leicester: Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 1788035216.
  5. ^ The London and China Telegraph: Published Weekly on Arrival of the P. & O. Messageries, and Pacific Mails from China, Japan, Straits Settlements, &c. In Connection with the "London and China Express." A Weekly Summary for the Outward Mails. Vol. XIV No. 436. London: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. 8 January 1872. p. 19.
  6. ^ Parkinson, Jonathan (2018). The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief (illustrated ed.). Leicester: Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 1788035216.
  7. ^ Kilpatrick, Ryan (7 February 2018). "HONG KONG THE PIRATE CAPITAL – PART V: HIJACKED ON THE HIGH SEAS". zolimacitymag.com. Zolima Limited. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  8. ^ "ABERDEEN SHIPPING". digital.nls.uk. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Thomas Guy Pocock d. 1890". memorials.rmg.co.uk. Royal Museums Greenwich. 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  10. ^ Ward, Iain (1991). Sui Geng: The Hong Kong Marine Police 1841-1950. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 58–60. ISBN 9622092861.
  11. ^ "SS Douglas (+1880)". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  12. ^ Bard, Solomon (1993). Traders of Hong Kong: some foreign merchant houses, 1841-1899. Urban Council. pp. 71–72, 125.
  13. ^ "Formosa SS (1882~1903) Cantabria SS (+1905)". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  14. ^ "Hai-Mun SS (1896~1928) Eika Maru [+1943]". wrecksite.eu. WreckSite. 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  15. ^ United States Congressional Serial Set. Vol. 5133. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1907. p. 227.
  16. ^ The Steamship. Vol. 20. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1909. pp. 110, 153.
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