ATTALA
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:33 pm
Built as a steam yacht under yard No 230 by Harland & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Del. for the rich American coal merchant Joseph Stickney.
Launched as the SUSQUEHANNA.
Tonnage 177 grt. 233 dwt, dim. 56.54 x 6.70 x 3.47m.
Powered by a 3-cyl steam engine of 83 nhp., speed?
1887 Completed with homeport New York.
She was used by Stickney as a private yacht at least till 1900, he died in 1903 but I can not find when she was sold.
Lloyds Register of 1912/1913 the first time she appears in this register gives her owners as Ocean Fisheries Co., Wilmington, U.S.A.
1917 Sold to the French Navy converted in a patrol vessel renamed ATALA. Homeport Brest.
1920 Sold to Maison Allain Vallee (Compagnie Trans-Insulaire de Navigation), Granville, France and refitted in a cargo-passenger vessel, renamed ATTALA.
When the London & South-Western Railway withdraw from the France service, the French company Trans-Insulaire extended her service from Jersey to St Malo.
19 April 1921 she arrived for the first time in Jersey.
She was in a regular service between Jersey and France until 14 October; afterwards she made only one voyage more that year to Jersey.
The next year was she mostly used as a standby vessel, when the other vessels in the company underwent docking and overhaul.
End 1922 the owners went bankrupt and most probably she stayed at St Malo.
August/September 1923 she made four relief trips to Jersey for an other operator.
1924 She made regular voyages between St Malo and Jersey between 07 June and 25 November.
23 May 1925 again in the service between St Malo and Jersey.
02 October 1925 on a voyage from ST Malo to Jersey in thick fog she grounded off La Rocque, she was totally engulfed by each high tide.
06 October 1925 refloated and taken to Gorey.
23 October 1925 towed to St Malo by the SAINT BRIEUC, after arrival in St Malo broken up.
Jersey 2001 45p sg?, scott?
Source: Lloyds Register. http://www.channelislandsshipping.je/page70.html and various other web-sites.
Launched as the SUSQUEHANNA.
Tonnage 177 grt. 233 dwt, dim. 56.54 x 6.70 x 3.47m.
Powered by a 3-cyl steam engine of 83 nhp., speed?
1887 Completed with homeport New York.
She was used by Stickney as a private yacht at least till 1900, he died in 1903 but I can not find when she was sold.
Lloyds Register of 1912/1913 the first time she appears in this register gives her owners as Ocean Fisheries Co., Wilmington, U.S.A.
1917 Sold to the French Navy converted in a patrol vessel renamed ATALA. Homeport Brest.
1920 Sold to Maison Allain Vallee (Compagnie Trans-Insulaire de Navigation), Granville, France and refitted in a cargo-passenger vessel, renamed ATTALA.
When the London & South-Western Railway withdraw from the France service, the French company Trans-Insulaire extended her service from Jersey to St Malo.
19 April 1921 she arrived for the first time in Jersey.
She was in a regular service between Jersey and France until 14 October; afterwards she made only one voyage more that year to Jersey.
The next year was she mostly used as a standby vessel, when the other vessels in the company underwent docking and overhaul.
End 1922 the owners went bankrupt and most probably she stayed at St Malo.
August/September 1923 she made four relief trips to Jersey for an other operator.
1924 She made regular voyages between St Malo and Jersey between 07 June and 25 November.
23 May 1925 again in the service between St Malo and Jersey.
02 October 1925 on a voyage from ST Malo to Jersey in thick fog she grounded off La Rocque, she was totally engulfed by each high tide.
06 October 1925 refloated and taken to Gorey.
23 October 1925 towed to St Malo by the SAINT BRIEUC, after arrival in St Malo broken up.
Jersey 2001 45p sg?, scott?
Source: Lloyds Register. http://www.channelislandsshipping.je/page70.html and various other web-sites.