Roslin Castle, 1883

Item

Identifier: imm-0276

Staff Only

Image of Roslin Castle (1883); mkey 106347

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1883

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Union-Castle Line

Builder and location: Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, Scotland

Tonnage and dimensions: 4,267 tons; 392' x 48'

Machinery and speed: Single-screw, 15 knots

Masts and funnels: 2 masts, 1 funnel

Routes: England-Africa

History: Lengthened in 1888. Sold to German owners in 1905 and chartered to the Russians as a store ship. Renamed REGINA. Ran ashore in Mozambique in 1905; refloated and repaired. Scrapped in 1907.

Legacy record identifier: Roslin Castle1883