PERSEVERANCE

DateFebruary 1868

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 112 3/12' x breadth 24' x depth 13 7/12'
Gross Tonnage: 224 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001695

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Humphrey & Co.
Official Number: 56612

Fate: sank near Sneuk Head, Hoy, Orkney, 03 September 1886.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 2 masts, brig rigged, round sterm, carvel built, no gallery, figurehead ¾ female

Owners:
13/02/1868: Registered at Aberdeen for original owners;
Robert Stephen, 32 shares; George Stephen, 9 shares (both shipowners, Boddam); Thomas Steven, shipmaster, 9 shares; Robert Stephen, shipmaster 9 shares; Alexander Davidson Jr., merchant, 5 shares [all Aberdeen].
19/03/1869: Death of Alexander Davidson Jr. - his 5 shares to his Executors Agnes McCallum or Davidson, widow and James Davidson, merchant, Aberdeen (joint owners).
15/07/1878: McCallum and Davidson 5 shares - Robert Stephen.
25/11/1880: All shares told to Samuel Keith, shipowner, Belfast and registry transferred to Belfast.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1880-86: Samuel Keith, registered in Belfast (Lloyd's)

Masters:
1868-75: Master R. Stephen
1876-77: Master Scroggie
1877-80: Master J. Cordiner
1880-81: Master W. Kennedy
1882-83: Master Bennett
1884: Master R. Gregory

General History:
31/12/1873:
PERSEVERANCE, brig, 17 Dec. 42N, 18W [off Cape Finisterre].
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

08/05/1877:
PERSEVERANCE, brig, steering west Lat. 37N, Long. 1E [Mediterranean off Oran] 27 April.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

13/09/1878:
Particulars have come to hand of the loss of the whaling schooner HELEN F. of New London [Connecticut], which was wrecked in the Arctic Sea so far back as Oct. 1876; in December of that year the crew made their way to the station at Penne's Harbour. There they fished with fair success until 10 July, when the Scotch brig PERSEVERANCE hove in sight and took them off and they were subsequently landed at Peterhead, from which the captain and first mate went via Liverpool to New York.
(Daily News)

03/09/1886: Foundered and lost in wind conditions WNW Force 5, 1.75 miles SW of Sneuk Head, Hoy, Orkney on passage South Shields - Galway with coal; Master Edwards; Owner S. Keith.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), "Shipwreck Index of British Isles" (Lloyd's Register, London), vol. 4, section 4)
(Note: the year quoted by Larn is 1883, which is presumably a missprint, as the sinking is well reported in the papers of 1886, see for example Shetland Times, 11/09/1886)