'ELF'
May 1856. Sailed from the Clyde for Hamburg.
17th May 1856. Purchased by the Glasgow & North of Europe Steam Navigation Company and renamed her ‘Elf’.
5th June 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Hogg, for Hamburg with goods.
18th July 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Hogg, for Hamburg with goods.
27th July 1856. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Hogg, from Hamburg with goods.
31st August 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Hogg, for Hamburg with goods.
15th August 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
24th August 1856. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Hamburg with goods.
29th August 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
11th September 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
22nd September 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
6th October 1856. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Hamburg with goods.
10th October 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
20th October 1856. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Hamburg with goods.
25th October 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Hamburg with goods.
4th November 1856. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Hamburg with goods.
30th December 1856. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Alloa under ballast.
10th March 1857. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Hamburg with goods.
20th April 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Stettin with goods.
10th May 1857. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Stettin.
15th May 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Stettin with goods.
15th June 1857. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Leith under ballast.
17th June 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Stettin with iron.
16th July 1857. Arrived at Grangemouth, Captain Pole, from Leith under ballast.
18th July 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Stettin with goods.
15th August 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Stettin with goods.
16th August 1857. While on voyage Grangemouth to Stettin she run into the steamship ‘Zouave’ midway between the Forth and South West Norway. ‘Zouave’ sank after 30 minutes, all crew being safely taken aboard and returned to Grangemouth.
21st August 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Pole, for Leith under ballast.
25th October 1857. Sailed from Grangemouth, Captain Hodge, for Stettin with goods.
October 1858. To be sold by private bargain. Lying in Grangemouth harbour.
1858. Owned by Thomas Kincaid & Robert Hughes, Glasgow.
1859. Sold to owners in Bilboa, Spain.
NOTES
‘Gore’s Liverpool General Advertiser’ – 7th October 1858.
For SALE, by PRIVATE BARGAIN,
Two fine screw Steam Ships
The ‘GNOME’ of Glasgow’
And
The ‘ELF’, of Glasgow.
Dimensions of the ‘ELF’ :- Length 168 feet 5/10 ths inch, breadth 28 feet 3/10 ths inch, depth of hold 14 feet 1/10 ths inch; builders measurement 631 72/94 tons. She is propelled by a pair of direct-acting engines, of sixty horse power collectively. Diameter of cylinders 32 inches, length of stroke 2 feet 3 inches, with tubular boiler. She was built by Messrs. Caird and Co. of Greenock, in 1856, and classed nine years A1 at Lloyd’s; capacity of hold or cargo 700 tons, of 60 cubic feet, capacity in dead weight 520 tons, capacity in bunks for coal 90 tons; draught of water, loaded, 13 feet aft and 11½ feet forward, and her speed averages eight knots per hour, on a consumption of coal of about nine tons daily. Has good accommodation for captain, officers and crew in deck house, and has a small comfortable cabin aft.
She lies in the harbour at Grangemouth.
‘Glasgow Morning Journal’ – 1st November 1858.
THE GLASGOW AND NORTH OF EUROPE STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY (LIMITED)
All Parties having CLAIMS against this Company, or against any of the Screw Steamers the ‘Sylph’, the ‘Elf’, and the ‘Gnome’, all of Glasgow, are requested to lodge the same, duly vouched, with either Messrs. Kerr, Anderson, & Brodie, accountants, 33 Renfield Street, or Messrs. C. R. Baird, Black, & Dill, solicitors, 54 West Nile Street, Glasgow, within three weeks from this date, with certification that those failing to do so will be excluded from a participation in the funds or the Company.
Glasgow, Nov. 1, 1858.
