HELEN BLACK

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

OwnerOwned by Glover Brothers, Aberdeen

Date1868

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 132.8' x breadth 25.5' x depth 14'
gross tonnage 305 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001145

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard: 257
Official number: 56611

Fate: Missing on passage from Hong Kong for Aberdeen in August 1871.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, one deck, three masts, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, demi-female figurehead, wood framework.

Owners:
03/02/1868: Aberdeen registry opened, No. 2 in 1868 for owners;
Charles Thomas Glover, Aberdeen, shipowner, 32 shares; Alexander McCallum, Aberdeen, master mariner, 16 shares; Joseph Donnell, Liverpool, manufacturer, 16 shares.
07/02/1868: 64 shares to Thomas Blake Glover, Nagasaki, Japan, merchant.
Empowering Thomas Blake Glover to sell the ship for a sum not less than one
hundred pounds sterling at any port in Japan or China within twenty four months from date of certificate.
18/11/1870: 8 shares, Charles Glover to William Jacob Glover, Aberdeen (shipmaster)
12/04/1871: 24 shares, Charles Glover to Charles Edward Dixon, Bamfield,
West Derby, Liverpool, merchant.
18/04/1871: 8 shares, William Glover to joint owners: -John Cardno Couper, Craigiebuckler, shipowner and Charles Brown Davidson, Aberdeen, advocate.
31/08/1871: Vessel left Hongkong (sic) and has not been heard of since. Voyage Hong Kong for Foo-Choo-Foo and Aberdeen.
04/11/1871: Certificate cancelled.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) Register 3 (CE87/11/12) folio 148)

General History:
25/01/1868: Launched. Named by Mrs M’Callum, wife of the captain.
15/02/1868: Sailed from Aberdeen for Nagasaki.
24/06/1868: At Nagasaki.
31/08/1871: Vessel left Hong Kong and went missing en route for Foo-Choo-Foo and Aberdeen.

Note: Contract cost £4,000 (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

See also: History (CS): -
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=59772&vessel=HELEN+BLACK

Wrecksite (WS): - http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?238941