WILLIAM PANTON

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

Date1845

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD; Oak and Larch

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength N/A x breadth 104' x depth 19'6
gross tonnage 170 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001036

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 148

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1852 but evidently still extant 1859

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 2 masts, clipper bow.

Owner:
1845-52: J. Munn, registered at Newfoundland

Masters:
1846-52: Master T. Pitt

Lloyd's Register:
1846-47: Aberdeen - Copenhagen.
1848-51: Liverpool - Newfoundland

General History:
10/12/1845:
Deaths: Drowned at sea on 30th August last, from off the brig WILLIAM PANTON, when on her voyage from Copenhagen to Newfoundland, off Cape Naze, John, aged 15 years, second son of William Johnston, late tobacco manufacturer, Aberdeen.
(Aberdeen Journal)

27/07/1859:
Tomorrow (Thursday), the 28th Instant, at Three o'clock, at Cunard, Wilson, and Co.'s Saleroom, Exchange, Liverpool, The handy well-known Brig WILLIAM PUNTON; 170 tons register. Length, 104 feet; breadth, 19 feet 6 10th; depth, 12 feet 7-10ths. Built for her present owners at Aberdeen, in 1845; has always been kept in first-rate order, and, having been continually employed in the oil aid salt trades, is thoroughly saturated and in very good condition. Has a flat foor, and is well adapted for a coaster. In King's Dock.-Apply to Messers, W. Tarbet and Sons, merchants; or to CUNARD, WILSON, & co. Brokers.
(Liverpool Mercury)

Notes: Contract cost £2,268 (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library in the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Sometimes listed as WILLIAM PANTON, sometimes WILLIAM PUNTON.
For diagram of WILLIAM PANTON see;
David R. MacGregor (1973), "Fast Sailing Ships 1775-1875" (Nautical Publishing Co., Lymington), pp. 122-23)