FAIRY QUEEN

DateJuly 1867

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 119 9/12' x breadth 24 5/12' x depth 18 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 249 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001694

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Humphrey & Co.
Official Number: 56607

Fate: uncertain, probably wrecked at Nosy Be, northwest coast of Madagascar, February 1881.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, round stern, carvel built, no gallery, full female figurehead

Owners:
1867: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John McLauchlan, shipowner, 43 shares; Robert Stephen, shipmaster, 21 shares
John McLauchlan sold 8 shares to John Cook.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1879-80: J. J. Wallace, registered at London

Masters:
1869-79: Master R. Stephen
1879-80: Master D. Evans

Voyages (Lloyd's):
1869-70: Aberdeen - Baltic
1871-73: Cardiff - Mediterranean

General History:
21/10/1873:
FAIRY QUEEN, Brig, Stephen master, from Baltimore for Queenstown, spotted October 1st off Cape Henry
(Dundee Courier)

12/03/1875:
From Glasgow for Trinidad, Fine A1 Brig FAIRY QUEEN, 249 tons Register, will have immediate despatch.
(Glasgow Herald)

02/05/1879:
Notice to creditors - Parties having claims against [...] Brig FAIRY QUEEN [and other vessels], all of Aberdeen, of which John McLaughlan, shipowner etc. in Aberdeen was managing owner, are requested to lodge same with David Stewart, Advocate, Aberdeen, Agent of Trustees of said John McLaughlan.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

09/02/1881:
Intelligence from Mauritius reports that the brig FAIRY QUEEN, from Bushire for Port Elizabeth, gone ashore near Nossi Be, and a total loss.
(Shields Daily Gazette)
(with no master or owner supplied it is impossible to say if this is the right FAIRY QUEEN, but it fits the dissapearance of this vessel from Lloyd's after 1880)