Devitt and Moore

Devitt and Moore was a British shipping company formed by Thomas Henry Devitt and Joseph Moore in 1836. They became shipowners and entered the passenger and cargo trade to Australia managing and owning many clipper ships such as the City of Adelaide and the South Australian. With the advent of steam, they developed a training scheme for cadets and formed Pangbourne College.[1]

House Flag of Devitt and Moore

Devitt and Moore fleet

In purchasing their first two full-rigged ships from Duncan Dunbar in 1863, Devitt and Moore started their long connection with Australia as shipowners. Over the next fifty-five years until the end of the First World War when they finally conceded to the competition from steamships, at various times the Devitt and Moore fleet comprised twenty-nine square-rigged sailing ships and two steamships carrying passengers, wool, copper and general cargo between Great Britain and Australia. Thomas Henry Devitt's grandson Howson Foulger Devitt went on to establish the insurance broker Devitt Insurance in 1936.[2]

The following list of ships owned by Devitt and Moore was adapted from a book by Captain A G Course.[1]

Vessel Name Original Rig Material Builders Date Built Period Owned Gross Tonnage Net Tonnage Length Overall (feet) Breadth (feet) Depth(feet)
VimieraShipWoodJames Laing, Sunderland18511863-1872967925165.73322.9
La HogueShipWoodJames Laing, Sunderland18551863-18861331-2263522.9
City of AdelaideShipCompositeWilliam Pile, Sunderland18641864-1887791696176.833.218.8
Saint DunstanBarque 3-mastedWood-, Sunderland18581864-1868441-128.527.518
GrasmereBarque 3-mastedWoodG. Gardner, Sunderland18651865-1883465-14228.517.5
PekinaShipWoodSmith, Aberdeen18651865-1880770-17730.618.4
St VincentShipCompositeWilliam Pile & Co., Sunderland18651865-1887892-1903518.9
ParramattaShipWoodJames Laing, Sunderland18661866-18871521-23138.222.8
Dunbar CastleShipWoodJames Laing, Sunderland18641866-1881925-182.733.921.5
South AustralianShipCompositeWilliam Pile & Co., Sunderland18681868-1887107810492013620.1
HawkesburyShipCompositeWilliam Pile & Co., Sunderland18681868-18881179112020336.221.5
Chaa-SzeShipWoodA. Hall & Co., Aberdeen18601868-187459555017029.118.1
OutalpaShipIronWilliam Pile & Co., Sunderland18691871-1881717676187.730.618
GatesideBarque 3-mastedIronMcMillan, Dumbarton18691871-1884739698184.629.618
John RennieShipIronJ. & G. Rennie, London18631872-1890848-17732.620
CollingwoodShipIronW. Hood & Co., Aberdeen18721872-189310641015211.134.821
SobraonShipCompositeA. Hall & Co., Aberdeen18661872-18892130-2724027
RodneyShipIronWilliam Pile & Co., Sunderland18741874-189615191447235.638.422
GlenelgSteamerIronSamuda, Blackwall, London18731875-18801316-249.732.822.3
Duke of AthollShipIronDenny & Rankin, Dumbarton18651880-1889963-199.233.220.9
IllawarraShipIronDobie & Co., Glasgow18811881-190719631887269.140.624
SimlaBarque 4-mastedIronTod & McGregor, Glasgow18541882-188322882172330.239.826.7
DerwentShipIronMcMillan, Dumbarton18841884-19041970189027540.223.7
MacquarieShipIronR. & H. Green Blackwall, London18751887-190419651857269.840.123.7
TamarShipSteelNapier, Shanks & Bell, Dumbarton18891889-190021152048286.842.524
HarbingerShipIronR. Steele & Co., Port Glasgow18761890-189815851506253.537.622.4
HesperusShipIronR. Steele & Co., Port Glasgow18731890-189918591777262.239.723.5
IrvineShipIronW. Doxford & Son, Pallion Sunderland18671899-1901673655170.629.519.1
Port JacksonBarque 4-mastedIronA. Hall & Co., Aberdeen18821906-191622121994286.241.125.2
MedwayBarque 4-mastedSteelA. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton19021910-19182516229830043.224.8
St GeorgeBarquentineIron and teak sheathingRamage & Ferguson, Leith18901919-1921694-19132.117.8
SunbeamBarquentineCompositeBowdler, Chaffer & Co., Seacombe18741920-1922 did not sail334-17027.513.8

References

  1. Course, Capt. A.G. (1961). Painted Ports: The Story of the Ships of Devitt and Moore. London: Hollis & Carter.
  2. "The History of Devitt - Devitt Insurance Services".
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