BEN MUICK DUI

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

Date1848

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 116.6' x breadth 21.6' x depth 14.8'
gross tonnage 244 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001052

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 164

Fate: Wrecked in the Elbe, 22 July 1870.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged clipper, 3 masts, 1-and-a-half poop decks, male figurehead, wood sheathed in yellow metal.

Owners:
27/03/1848: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners; George Leslie, shipowner, 56 shares; John Jamieson, shipmaster, 8 shares [both Aberdeen].
03/11/1851: Robert Mathieson appointed master at Liverpool in room of John Jamieson.
12/12/1853: Vessel re-registered at London.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1855: Laurie & Co., registered at London.
1856-59: Falconer & Co.
1861-69: Cockerill, registered at Sunderland.

Masters:
1850-53: Master Jamieson
1855: Master W. Pannell
1856-59: Master G. B. Lee
1861-69: Master Cockerill

Voyages:
1850-51: Aberdeen - Rio de Janeiro
1852-53: Liverpool
1855: London - Africa
1859-56: London
1861-62: Shields - Mediterranean
1863-69: Yarmouth

General History:
25/08/1870:
WRECK OF A SUNDERLAND BARQUE. On Friday evening, Messrs. M. Lonie and Co., j shipbrokers, &c., Exchange-buildings, Sunderland, received a telegram from Cuxhaven, dated Friday, [22 July] 10.25 a.m.,conveying the information that the barque BEN MUICK DHUI had stranded on the Schaarholm, at the mouth of the Elbe, and become a total wreck. Captain Robert Wilkinson and the crew were saved and landed at Cuxhaven. The BEN MUICK DHUI belonged to Messrs. Lonie and Co., and left this port coal-laden for Hamburg, on Saturday week. The disaster was undoubtedly caused by the increased danger of navigation induced by the removal of the beacons and buoys at the mouth of the Elbe. [due to the Franco-Prussian war]
(Northern Echo)

Note: Cost at construction, £3,300 (Builder's list in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)