Nicholas Peppas
09-05-2010, 04:36
Aphrodite was a ship of McDowall & Barbour. She is listed in Lloyd Register of 1901.
88879
She was built in 1863 as the passenger ship Magnetic by Tod & McGregor of Meadowside, Scotland. She was a sister ship of Electric that became later the Greek Peloponnisos.
According to Miramar, she had 609 tons
1863
Name: MAGNETIC Keel:
Type: Passenger ship Launch Date: 5.3.63
Flag: GBR Date of completion:
Tons: 609 Link: 1565
DWT: 0 Yard No: 124
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Tod & McGregor
Material of build: I Location of yard: Meadowside
Another more reliable site, that of Tod & Mc Gregor offers an interesting view of the ship http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Magnetic_138.htm
Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
Yard No.: 124
Name: MAGNETIC
Year: 1862
Description: Passenger Cargo Ship
Tonnage: 738
Length: 210
Width: 27
H.P.:150
Type: Iron, Twin Engine
Customer: Belfast SS Co.
Fate: 1906
Points of Note: Further references are contained in Burns and Laird Lines Ltd, History (1951)
Notes: The arrival of the Electric and Magnetic early in 1863 established the Belfast SS Co’s tradition of being an all screw fleet. These were also the first vessels owned by the company to have an ~ic termination to their names, a custom which was followed by all subsequent vessels until the arrival of the Ulster Monarch and her colleagues in 1929. The two steamers were sold in 1886 to James Hay and Co.; four years later the Magnetic was sent to Leith.
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]
Here is a further discussion about the Magnetic and the Belfast SS Co
Tod & Macgregor Customers:
Belfast Steam Ship Co.
Year:
Ship Name:
Builder
Tonnage:
1848 Blenheim (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Blenheim_65.htm) Tod and MacGregor 650 1863 Magnetic (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Magnetic_138.htm) Tod and MacGregor 600 1863 Electric (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Electric_142.htm) Tod and MacGregor 600
Notes:
The company concentrated on providing a fast passenger service, principally to Liverpool. Services were commenced in 1819 and in 1828 the company changed its name to Langtry and Herdman. The Cork SS Co absorbed the fleet in 1850, but the poor service offered persuaded the Belfast Chamber of Commerce to propose the creation of the Belfast SS Co. in 1852.
For the next five years conditions were very unsettled with outbreaks of intense competition between five companies which at one time or another competed for the Belfast-Liverpool traffic in this period. In 1857 the two survivors, Messrs Langtry (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/langtry.htm) & Herdman and the Belfast SS Co. (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/belfast_ss.htm), came to terms. Langtry (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/langtry.htm) & Herdman was by then independent of the Cork SS Co, was but taken over by the Belfast SS in 1859; leaving the Belfast SS Co with a complete monopoly.
Henceforward, the Belfast SS were to have almost an unbroken monopoly of the Belfast-Liverpool crossing.
[Coastal & Short Sea Liners, CV Waine]
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]
88879
She was built in 1863 as the passenger ship Magnetic by Tod & McGregor of Meadowside, Scotland. She was a sister ship of Electric that became later the Greek Peloponnisos.
According to Miramar, she had 609 tons
1863
Name: MAGNETIC Keel:
Type: Passenger ship Launch Date: 5.3.63
Flag: GBR Date of completion:
Tons: 609 Link: 1565
DWT: 0 Yard No: 124
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Tod & McGregor
Material of build: I Location of yard: Meadowside
Another more reliable site, that of Tod & Mc Gregor offers an interesting view of the ship http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Magnetic_138.htm
Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
Yard No.: 124
Name: MAGNETIC
Year: 1862
Description: Passenger Cargo Ship
Tonnage: 738
Length: 210
Width: 27
H.P.:150
Type: Iron, Twin Engine
Customer: Belfast SS Co.
Fate: 1906
Points of Note: Further references are contained in Burns and Laird Lines Ltd, History (1951)
Notes: The arrival of the Electric and Magnetic early in 1863 established the Belfast SS Co’s tradition of being an all screw fleet. These were also the first vessels owned by the company to have an ~ic termination to their names, a custom which was followed by all subsequent vessels until the arrival of the Ulster Monarch and her colleagues in 1929. The two steamers were sold in 1886 to James Hay and Co.; four years later the Magnetic was sent to Leith.
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]
Here is a further discussion about the Magnetic and the Belfast SS Co
Tod & Macgregor Customers:
Belfast Steam Ship Co.
Year:
Ship Name:
Builder
Tonnage:
1848 Blenheim (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Blenheim_65.htm) Tod and MacGregor 650 1863 Magnetic (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Magnetic_138.htm) Tod and MacGregor 600 1863 Electric (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Electric_142.htm) Tod and MacGregor 600
Notes:
The company concentrated on providing a fast passenger service, principally to Liverpool. Services were commenced in 1819 and in 1828 the company changed its name to Langtry and Herdman. The Cork SS Co absorbed the fleet in 1850, but the poor service offered persuaded the Belfast Chamber of Commerce to propose the creation of the Belfast SS Co. in 1852.
For the next five years conditions were very unsettled with outbreaks of intense competition between five companies which at one time or another competed for the Belfast-Liverpool traffic in this period. In 1857 the two survivors, Messrs Langtry (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/langtry.htm) & Herdman and the Belfast SS Co. (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/belfast_ss.htm), came to terms. Langtry (http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/langtry.htm) & Herdman was by then independent of the Cork SS Co, was but taken over by the Belfast SS in 1859; leaving the Belfast SS Co with a complete monopoly.
Henceforward, the Belfast SS were to have almost an unbroken monopoly of the Belfast-Liverpool crossing.
[Coastal & Short Sea Liners, CV Waine]
[Irish Passenger Steamship Services, D.B. McNeill]