MARY ANN
Shipbuildervessel built by
Nicol Reid & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, founded c.1790)
DateDecember 1818
Object NameBRIGANTINE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 86' x breadth 24 7/12' x depth 14 7/12'
Registered Tonnage: 220 ton
Registered Tonnage: 220 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001650
Keywords
Fate: unknown, last Lloyd's reference 1823 (LR underwriters, 1823, M736)
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rig, 1 deck with beams, fir bottom
Owners:
Date unclear: John Catto, William Catto, Joseph Moore and 3 others (Ship Builder's lists: AMM Lloyd's library)
1820-23: Captain & co (Moore & Co.) (LR underwriters, 1820, M supplement 9)
Master:
1820-22: Master Joseph Moore
23/06/1820:
"MARY ANN, Moore" recorded as arriving in Quebec from Aberdeen on 13 May
(Lloyd's List)
24/11/1820:
"MARY ANN, Moore" recorded as arriving in Quebec from Aberdeen on 8 October
(Lloyd's List)
21/11/1821:
"At Quebec, MARY ANN, Moore, from Aberdeen"
(Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser)
13/08/1822:
"MARY ANN, Moore" recorded as arriving at Leith from Quebec
(Lloyd's List)
12/12/1822:
"Aberdeen
We lament to state the following particulars of the loss of the brig MARY ANN, Moore, of this place, on her voyage from Quebec to London, as communicated by the surviving part of her crew, which were saved on the 27th ult [ie November] by the exertion of Captain Lander, and the crew of the Lester, of Poole, which was put back to that port in consequence of being disabled in her voyage to Newfoundland, in a gale on the 20th ult. The MARY ANN sailed from Quebec on the 4th of November. After being twenty days at sea experienced a heavy gale on the 23d, and sudded under the reefed fore-sail, and double reefed main-top-sail. the vessel steering wild about five pm a tremendous sea broke over her quarter, which carried away her main mast, and swept the deck of boats, bulwarks and everything standing when Captain Moore, who was standing at the helm was consigned to a watery grave having never afterwards appeared. The wreck of the main-mast being cleared away, it was found the vessel owing to damage done [to] the decks, was half full of water, which gained so much on the pumps, that she became waterlogged in ajn hour. Next day the decks broke up, when her cargo, which consisted chiefly of staves, was washed out. Soon after this sea broke, the vessels decks sunks under water. When the mate, eleven seamen, and a boy of the name Davidson, hastened to the shrouds, in order to gain the fore-top, the only remaining place of refuge for the survivors, in which all succeeded except the boy who was swept away. In the top they remained from Saturday till the Wednesday following, with nothing but a few buiscuits, not a whole one each person per day, and for the last twenty-four hours their stock was exhausted. Captain Moore was an unmarried man, of about thirty years of age.
(Morning Herald (London) )
