PILOT FISH
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1848
Object NameSHIP
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
DimensionsLength: 126' x Breadth: 23.7' x Depth: 16'
Gross Tonnage: 303 tons
Gross Tonnage: 303 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001051
Keywords
Yard Number: 163
Fate: sold for breaking up in Hong Kong, October 1870.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 1 deck, 3 masts, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, female bust figurehead.
Owners:
1848-69: B. Darbyshire, registered at Liverpool.
1869: Hall & Co., registered at Aberdeen
Registration cancelled, Oct. 1870, vessel sold to foreigners in Hong Kong for the purpose of being broken up.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Masters:
1849-50: Master E. Friend
1851-69: Master S. Sedgeley
1869-70: Master Watson
Voyages:
1849-54: Aberdeen - Bahia [Brazil]
1854-69: Liverpool - Rio de Janeiro
1869-70: Aberdeen - India
General History:
The deck layout of the PILOT FISH is described thus by the Lloyd's surveyor: 'Has a flush main deck throughout with raised house on deck for cabin extending in breadth to within 2 and a half feet of rail each side and in length to 3 or 4 feet of stern post. The passage on each side and the portion abaft the house covered in and decked with 2 and a half inch yellow pine to level of lower part of main rail and made watertight. The whole forming a raised quarter deck on each side and abaft the house - is formed with a clipper prow and round stern.'
(Source: David MacGregor, 'Fast Sailing Ships, 1775-1875' (Nautical Publishing, Lymington Hants, 1973), p. 122)
Notes: Cost at construction, £6119 (Builder's list in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Re-rigged as a barque 1859.
Continues to appear in Lloyd's until 1874.
1841
