SS Cushag

SS Cushag was a coastal cargo vessel owned and operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1920 and 1943.

SS Cushag approaching Peel.
History
Name:
  • 1908: Ardnagrena
  • Cushag
Owner:
  • 1908-1914: James Waterson & Co., Antrim
  • 1914-1919: Humber Steam Containers Ltd.
  • 1919-1920: Owned by a London Broker
  • 1920-1943: Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
  • 1943-1957: London Shipping Agents
Operator:
  • 1908–1914: James Waterson & Co.
  • 1914-1919: Humber Steam Containers Ltd.
  • 1919-1920: Unrecorded London Ship Broker
  • 1920-1943: Isle of Man Steam Packet Co.
  • 1943-1957: London Shipping Agents
Port of registry: 1920-1943: Douglas, Isle of Man
Route: Various.
Builder: G. Brown & Company Greenock
Launched: 12 August 1908
Completed: 1908
Acquired: 1920: Purchased by IoMSPCo. for £22,000
In service: 1908
Out of service: 1957
Identification: Official Number 124673
Fate: 1957: Scrapped at Grangemouth
General characteristics
Type: Coastal Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 223 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 125 ft 0 in (38.1 m)
Beam: 22 ft 1 in (6.7 m)
Depth: 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m)
Installed power: 350 ihp (260 kW)
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h)
Crew: Not Recorded.

Dimensions

Cushag was a steel; single-screw vessel which had a registered tonnage of 223 GRT. Length 125'; beam 22'1"; depth 9'2". Cushag had a single steam reciprocating engine which developed 350 i.h.p.; and a design speed of 10 knots.

Service Life
Cushag pictured berthed at Peel.

Built by G. Brown & Co. at Greenock in 1908, she was originally named Ardnagrena. Her first owners were James Waterson & Co. of Antrim, who sold her to Humber Steam Coasters Ltd in 1914. Five years later she was sold once more, this time to a London broker, from whom she was purchased by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in May 1920, at a cost of £22,000 (equivalent to £890,194)[1].

Small and drawing so little water, she was mostly used for cargo trade in the Island's smaller ports - Port St Mary, Peel, Laxey and Castletown.

After over 20 years service with the Company, she was sold to London agents in January 1943, and then went on to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis for four years. She transferred to Kirkwall in Orkney in 1947.

Disposal

Cushag's register ceases on 20 July 1957, when she was broken up at Grangemouth.

Cushag.
  • Cushag pictured at the Office Berth, Douglas.

References
  1. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
Bibliography
  • Chappell, Connery (1980). Island Lifeline T.Stephenson & Sons Ltd ISBN 0-901314-20-X
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