DEVANHA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateNovember 1864
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 182' x breadth 31' x depth 19'
gross tonnage: 795 ton
gross tonnage: 795 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001128
Keywords
Yard Number: 240
Official Number: 48861
Fate: Missing in the North Atlantic, Spring 1880.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 2 decks, poop 45' and forecastle 34', 3 masts, shield figurehead.
Owners:
12/11/1864: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
John Jamieson, shipowner, 16 shares; James Hall, shipbuilder, 4 shares; George Hutchison, merchant, 4 shares (all Aberdeen); Thomas Osborne Stock, shipowner, 16 shares; John Sanderson Rigge, John Gurney Fry, John Silverlock, merchants, 16 shares jointly; Henry Hewetson McMennies, John Wade, shipbrokers, 8 shares jointly, (all London).
11/07/1866: Stock 16 shares to William Hopkins, London, to secure mortgage.
18/06/1867: Rigge, Fry and Silverlock 16 shares to Samuel Hoare, banker, London, to secure mortgage.
04/07/1867: Hopkins and stock 16 shares to John Jamieson.
12/03/1870: James Hall adjudged bankrupt 04/01/1870. His 4 shares to James Milne, timber merchant, Aberdeen, trustee of estate.
24/08/1870: James Milne 4 shares to John Thomson, shipmaster. On death of John Jamieson, his 32 shares to his executor - John Duncan, advocate, Aberdeen.
15/09/1870: John Duncan 16 shares to William Jamieson, shipbroker, London.
20/09/1870: William Jamieson 16 shares to North of Scotland Banking Co., Aberdeen, as security for mortgage.
Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives)
Master's:
1865-75: Master J. Thomson
1875-76: Master Sinclair
1877-80: Master W. May.
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1865: Aberdeen - China
1866: London - China
1867-68: London - Australia
1869-70: London - China
1871-72: London - Japan
General History:
12/04/1867:
Clipper ship DEVANHA, of the Aberdeen Line, arrived in the bay Wednesday morning and was yesterday morning berthed at the Victorian Railway Pier, Williamstown [Near Melbourne]. DEVANHA is a handsome little vessel - a real clipper of around 700 tons, and was constructed especially for the China tea trade, in which she has made some good passages. Her present voyage, however, has been unduly protracted, but this cannot be wondered at much, seeing she is not in flying trim but, on the contrary, has brought a most enormous cargo for her tonnage and, moreover, has had to contend against much adverse weather on her way out. She has come into port scrupulously clean, and her smart appearance below and aloft indicates that she is ably officered and efficiently manned. Captain Thomson informs us that he left London on Jan. 1st and met with strong W and SW winds in the channel and when about a week out the ship was caught in a fearfully heavy gale from the SW, which lasted about 24 hours. Very unsettled weather prevailed until falling in with the NE trades (which were light) in Lat 23N [off West Africa]. Equator was crossed on February 3rd. The SE trades were very light and inconsistent and alternated with light variable winds until making Gough's Island on Feb 21st. Light winds and foggy weather prevailed from thence to the Meridian of the Cape of Good Hope, which was passed on March 3rd in 42 degrees south. Winds between 30th and 45th degrees of east longditude were chiefly from the NE and were accompanied with disagreeable dirty weather from 45 degrees east stong westerly winds prevailed and from 1st April until taking the pilot aboard nothing but easterly weather was experienced. On March 15th during a gale the two maintopmast backstay chain plates were carried away.
(Melbourne Argus)
13/05/1880:
OVERDUE VESSELS. The undermentioned vessels, which here not been heard of since the dates stated below, are considered much overdue:—DEVANA, Captain May, which sailed from Bangkok for London on the 1st October last, and from St Helena on the 7th January, and was spoken on the 8th March in lat. 46 N. long. 41
(Greenock Advertiser )
Notes: Contract cost £15,741 (Builder's list held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum).
16/11/1877: re-rigged as a barque (Aberdeen Register).
