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

Date1857

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 117' x breadth 24' x depth 14'
289 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001097

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 209

Fate: lost off Mawlamyine, Burma, 1863.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, 1 deck, 3 masts, half-length female figurehead.

Owners:
27/07/1857: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
George Gray, merchant, 20 shares; James Collie, advocate, 20 shares; James Gray, salmon fisher, 8 shares; James Asher, merchant, 8 shares; Robert Sangster snr., flesher, 4 shares; James Skinner, accountant, 4 shares - all Aberdeen.
18/04/1860: James Skinner 2 shares to John Cook, Aberdeen, steward, Lochhead Hydropathic Establishment.
29/08/1860: James Skinner & John Cook 4 shares to George Gray.
01/06/1863: vessel totally lost off Moulmain, Burma [now Mawlamyine, date presumed to be of the information being added to the register, not the event]
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1858-63: Master Colville

Voyages:
1858-63: London - Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)

Note: Contract cost, £4038 (builder's list held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)