COMMISSARY
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateMarch 1868
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 186' x breadth 33.1' x depth 20.1'
gross tonnage 941 tons
gross tonnage 941 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001141
Keywords
Yard Number: 253
Official Number: 56614
Subsequent Names: JOHANNE AUGUST (1879)
Fate: wrecked in Chile, March 1889
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 2 decks, poop deck 64', forecastle 34', 3 masts, demi-male figurehead
Owners:
11/04/1868: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
Henry Adamson, 40 shares; Henry Adamson jr., 4 shares; John Saunders Adamson, 4 shares (all shipowners); Benjamin Moir, merchant, 8 shares; William Leask, shipbuilder, 4 shares (all of Aberdeen); William Challis, merchant, Cornhill, London, 4 shares.
09/09/1872: On death of Benjamin Moir his 8 shares - Henry Adamson.
30/07/1873: On death of William Challis his 4 shares - Harriet Challis, widow, Clapham Road, Surrey.
18/11/1875: Henry Adamson jr. and John Saunders Adamson adjudged bankrupts. Their 8 shares sold by trustee to Catherine Saunders or Adamson, wife of Henry Adamson.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1879-85: H. Bischoff, registered at Bremen
1887-89: Fr. Hilken, registered at Bremen
Masters:
1869-73: Master A. Wagstaff
1874-78: Master W. Hunter
1879: Master Morison
1879-85: Master H. Schmidt
1885-87: Master Ekhoff
1887-89: Master Schultz
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1869-70: Aberdeen - Australia.
1871-73: London - Australia.
General History:
17/05/1872:
COMMISSARY ship of Aberdeen, 42 days out from London, steering SE 22 Feb, 35S, 12W [Mid Atlantic on meridian of Cape of Good Hope - bound for Australia]
(Glasgow Herald)
18/02/1878:
Signalled off the lizard 17 Feb, ship COMMISSARY of Aberdeen, from Batavia (Ojakarta, Java) for Falmouth.
(Western Mail (Cardiff))
20/03/1889:
A Valparaiso cablegram states that the German barque JOHANNE AUGUSTE is totally lost; crew were saved, and were landed at Valparaiso
(South Wales Echo)
Notes: Contract price £15,200 (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Re-rigged as a barque c. 1887
1816
