MARION
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1853
Object NameBARQUE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 109.7' x breadth 23' x depth 10.5'
gross tonnage 192 tons (Lloyd's); 191 tons (A. Hall)
gross tonnage 192 tons (Lloyd's); 191 tons (A. Hall)
Object numberABDSHIP001076
Keywords
Yard Number: 188
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1862 (M328).
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged clipper
Owner:
1853-64: C. W. & F. Shand, registered at Liverpool
Master:
1854-62: Master E. Byrne
Voyages:
1854: Aberdeen - Australia
1855-62: London - Ceylon
General History:
16/03/1854:
"MARION" arrived Liverpool 15 March from Bombay, from which she sailed 3 November and from Ascension 6 February.
(Morning Chronicle)
07/12/1855:
Barque "MARION", Byrne, of Liverpool, arrived Melbourne 25 August from Calcutta, was in contact (i.e. collided) 16 August off Cape Llewin with "SEA PARK" and lost all her masts and spars, except her foremast and made much water.
(Glasgow Herald)
27/08/1856:
Edward F. Byrne, Master of barque "MARION" Port Philip Heads [Victoria], 30/8/1856 - Messrs. Graham, Sands & Co. - "Advise my arrival from Ceylon via Mauritius, passage from Mauritius 25 days. We also made passage between Colombo and Port Louis in remarkably short time of 12 days, but my quick passages myself, my officers, my crew and the greatest sufferers of all, my owners, are one and all rewarded with being thrust into quarantine for 3 whole days and nights - and for what? MARION merely called at the Mauritius, did not enter Port Louis Harbour, did not receive any Mauritius cargo, had no communication with the shore and all we did was to lie in the outer roads for 4 days and nights and discharge a few hundred bags of coffee. The island was quite healthy and totally exempt from cholera. Hope to get the ship liberated as soon as possible [to dock at Melbourne].
(Sydney Empire)
25/03/1864:
FOR SALE, the well known Clipper-built Barque "MARION" well found in Stores, fitted with Cunningham's Patent Reefing topsails, 192 tons new, and 323 old measurement built in Aberdeen by Messrs. HALL, in 1853, classed then A1 at Lloyds for 9 years docked at Bombay and thoroughly overhauled at an expense of Rs. 13,000 is 1861. Loads at a draught of 10 feet 8 inches. This very eligible vessel for the coasting or Australian trade is on sale on account of the owners having no further use for her.
Apply to C. SHAND & Co. Madras and Colombo
(Times of India)
Note: Contract cost, £3,807 - £14.14/- per ton (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1841
April 1827
