GLENTANAR
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1842
Object NameSHIP
MediumWOOD; Oak, Fir, and Elm.
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 130' x breadth 26' x depth 19'
Gross Tonnage:524 tons (610 burthen)
Gross Tonnage:524 tons (610 burthen)
Object numberABDSHIP001011
Keywords
Yard Number: 123
Fate: Wrecked on Cape Sao Roque, north east Brazil, 2 January 1862.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck and a poop deck, 3 masts, ship rigged, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, man figurehead, 3 galleries. Constructed of oak, fir, and elm.
Owners:
06/04/1842: Yule, Wylie and Co., registered at Liverpool.
12/08/1843: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners; Thomas Blaikie, plumber, 11 shares; Alexander Anderson, advocate, 11 shares; Robert Johnston, merchant, 10 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other owners; William Adam, advocate, 11 shares; Alexander Jopp, 11 shares; Henry Paterson, banker, 10 shares, all Aberdeen.
29/06/1848: Whole vessel sold to Thomas Blaikie, Alexander Anderson, Robert Johnston, William Adam, Alexander Jopp as partners for behoof of the Bon Accord Company.
25/10/1849: Whole vessel sold to James Hyde, John Hodge and James Bartler Hyde, London, merchants, Co-Partners trading as Hyde, Hodge and Company.
09/11/1849: Aberdeen registration cancelled. Vessel registered De Novo at London.
(Aberdeen Reigister of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives))
1850-51: Hyde and Co., registered at London (Lloyd's)
Masters:
1843: Master Anderson.
1844-49: Master George Brock
1850-51: Master G. Taylor
Voyages (Lloyd's Register):
1843: Aberdeen- Africa
1844-45: Liverpool - Sydney
1847: London
1848-49: London - Calcutta
1850: London - the Cape of Good Hope
General History:
26/12/1858:
Her Majesty's Emigration Commisioners chartered two ships on Thursday afternoon. viz. the JAMES JARDINE, 810 tons, to sail from Liverpool for Adelaide (South Australia), at £14 13s. 11d. per statute adult; and the GLENTANNER, 610 tons, to sail from Southampton for Moreton Bay (New South Wales), £14 9s. 8d. per statute adult, both vessels to be ready for the reception of passengers between the 7th and 14th of February.
(Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle)
03/02/1862:
Pernambuco 14 Jan - The British ship GLENTANNER, of London, 610 tons register, Wilson master, which vessel sailed from Callao, Nov. 8, with a cargo of guano, bound for Queenstown for orders, was wrecked on the Roccas Shoal, about 125 miles north east of Cape S. Roque, on the morning of the 2d inst [i.e. January] The mate and seven sailors arrived here in a boat on the 6th inst., and another boat with the master and eight sailors is supposed to have landed to the northward.
(Morning Herald (London))
Note: Cost at construction, £5377 (Builder's List in Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1841
1832
