UNDAUNTED
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1854
Object NameWHALER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 117.1' x breadth 24.6' x depth 17'
gross tonnage 314 tons
gross tonnage 314 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001079
Keywords
Yard Number: 191
Fate: crushed by ice in Melville Bay, North West Greenland, 11 July 1857.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged whaler, with Aberdeen Bow
Owner:
1854: Northern Seal & Whale Fishing Co., Peterhead
General History:
04/01/1854
The other vessel launched [on 31 December 1853] was the "UNDAUNTED,” of Peterhead, built for Mr John Brown, of that port, expressly for the seal and whale fishing. She is...... 314 N. M., and, in her appearance, is a striking contrast to the "VISION,” being doubled, trippled, and otherwise fortified for encountering the dangers of the northern seas. She will be ready for sea in course of January; and her keel having been laid I the first day of October, she has thus been completed within three months, according to the contract, and is a good example the resources at the command of the shipbuilders of this port.
(Aberdeen Journal)
22/02/1854:
On Monday new ship UNDAUNTED, belonging to Peterhead, but lately built here by Messrs Hall, sailed for Greenland seal fishing.
(Aberdeen Journal)
04/05/1855:
Greenland Fishery so far has been very succesful. Peterhead ship UNDAUNTED arrived in that port full 30 April.
(Hull & East Riding Times)
16/10/1857:
DAVIS' STRAITS FISHERY.-LOSS OF TWO SHIPS. Letters received by Ald Abbey and other shipowners, dated Lerwick, October 5th, give but a gloomy account of this year's fishery. The GYPSY and the UNDAUNTED, of Peterhead, two of the finest, strongest, and swiftest...vessels ever sent to the fishery, had been crushed between the ice, and lost in Melville Bay, the former on the 29th June and the latter on the 11th July.
(Hull Packet)
30/12/1859:
VOYAGE OF THE FOX IN THE ARCTIC SEAS [Searching for the Franklin exedition]
Captain McClintock
At Disco he meet [sic] with Captain Henry and Captain Walker, the late commanders of the whalers "GIPSEY" and "UNDAUNTED" of Peterhead, which had been crushed by the ice in Melville Bay five or six weeks previously; all the other whalers had returned from the north along the pack edge, passed south of Disco. They said the ice in Melville Bay was all broken up, and they thought we should find but little difficulty at this late period in passing through it into the North Water.
(Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District)
[the FOX was also an Aberdeen Vessel]
Notes: Not listed in Lloyd's register.
Contract cost £6,010 (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
