- Source: Mabel Young (barque)
Mabel Young was an iron barque built in 1877 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, as Yard No. 215. Dimensions: 211'0"×33'6"×20'45 and tonnage: 1046 GRT, 1015 NRT. Rigged with royals, over single topgallant and double topsails.
1877 November 21
Launched at the shipyard of Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, for Killick Martin & Company, London. Captain Joseph Smith Crane late of the same owner's ship John C. Munro.
Killick Martin & Company owned eight shares in the vessel, Edward Boustead eight shares, and his partners William Wardrop Shaw eight shares and Jasper Young 40 shares. It is surmised that the vessel was named after Jasper Young's wife or daughter.
1878 January 17 - June 2
Sailed from Glasgow to San Francisco in 136 days.
1878 July 30 - November 25
Sailed from San Francisco to Liverpool in 118 days with a cargo of wheat. The Dallam Tower which sailed on the same day as the Mabel Young arrived to Liverpool 122 days out.
1878 December 23 - April 15
Sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta in 113 days
1879 June 10
Sailed from Calcutta for Dundee with a cargo of 1220 tons of jute, 150 tons of bone dust and 50 tons of old iron.
1879 July 31
Foundered some 30 miles SE of Algoa Bay on voyage from Calcutta to Dundee with a cargo of jute.
References
External links
Killick Martin & Company Ltd
Bruzelius: Killick Martin & Company Fleet
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- Mabel Young (barque)
- Gustaf Erikson
- List of ship launches in 1877
- Stanley Lord
- Lilla Cabot Perry
- List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes
- Killick Martin & Company
- Alexander Stephen and Sons
- John McDouall Stuart
- List of ship launches in 1838
