BESSY ROBERTSON

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 75' x breadth 19.2' x depth 12.7'
gross tonnage 149 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000984

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 98

Fate: Lost off Buenos Aires, 17 September 1850.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 Deck, 2 masts and a trysail, brigantine rigged, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, a female bust figurehead.

Owners:
1839: Registered at Peterhead for subscribing owners: George Christy, shipmaster, Peterhead, 30 shares.
Other shareholders: James Watson Robertson, painter, 2 shares; George Skelton, shipowner, 8 shares; Alexander Connon, bookbinder, 8 shares;, Alexander Christie, shipmaster, 4 shares; James Hutchison, 4 shares, all Peterhead.
From letter by Martin Tupper Hood, British Consul in Buenos Aires, held at Aberdeen City Archives, with the Aberdeen Shipping Registers, cancelling certificate after ship lost 3 miles from the city during a gale on 17th September 1850. Vessel sold as a consequence of her having been ashore.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1840-47: Master G. Christie
1848-50: Master Alexander

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1840: Aberdeen - Petersburg
1841-43: London
1844-47: Peterhead
1848-50: Cork

General History:
08/11/1848:
Sale of shares of whale-fishing and other ships at Peterhead, part of Estate of Late George Skelton, Esq [...] 8/64 shares of brig BESSY ROBERTSON, of Peterhead, of 149 tons burden.
(Aberdeen Journal)

24/05/1853:
Deaths - 17 May at Peterhead. George Christie, formerly Master of brig BESSY ROBERTSON.
(Liverpool Mercury)

Note: Cost at construction, £1821, or £11 15s. per ton. (Builder's List in Aberdeen Maritime Museum)