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BESSY ROBERTSON
BESSY ROBERTSON
BESSY ROBERTSON

BESSY ROBERTSON

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1839
Object NameBRIG
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 75' x breadth 19.2' x depth 12.7'
gross tonnage 149 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000984
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)
SCOTSMAN
Alexander Farquharson
25 October 1825
ADVENTURE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1833
JANET
Walter Hood & Co.
March 1867
MANSFIELD
August 1824
AURORA
Catto & Co.
April 1816
EAGLE
William Rennie
1799
PERSEVERANCE
February 1868
ARIEL
DUTHIE
1848
RUBY
March 1805
MYRTLE
1809
LIVERPOOL PACKET
11 June 1819
ADELAIDE
August 1830
RAPID
DUTHIE
1834
BUCHAN
Alexander HALL & Co.
1835
MINERVA
Alexander HALL & Co.
1838
PERA
Alexander HALL & Co.
1843
EUROPA
Alexander HALL & Co.
August 1834
LEUCADIA
Walter Hood & Co.
1870
PACIFIC
DUTHIE
4 June 1834
POMONA
Nicol Reid & Co.
1838
LUNA
Walter Hood & Co.
1848