FERRYHILL

DateMay 1868

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 121' x breadth 24 1/12' x depth 14'
gross tonnage: 248 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001696

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Humphrey & Co.
Official Number: 60683

Fate: wrecked near Calais, 19 November 1875.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged with clipper hull, 1 deck with a poop deck, 2 masts, brig rigged, eliptical stern, cervel built, no galleries, female figurehead.

Owners:
14/05/1868: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
John McLauchlan, shipowner, 32 shares; Peter Jamieson, merchant, 24 shares; John Humphrey, shipbuilder, Richard Connon and Alexander Rhind Dyer, both shipowners (joint owners of 8 shares) - all of Aberdeen.
04/03/1869: McLauchlan - Peter Jamieson, manufacturer, Aberdeen - 8 shares.
26/07/1869: McLauchlan 16 shares - Jamieson.
22/02/1871: McLauchlan 8 shares - Connon and Dyer (held jointly).
09/06/1874: Jamieson 48 shares; Humphrey, Connon and Dyer 8; Connon and Dyer 8 - all to Joseph Thomson, Edinburgh, master mariner.
20/06/1874: Thomson 16 shares - James Ross, Inverkeithing, shipowner.
20/11/1875: Vessel lost or wrecked at Calais.
(Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1869-73: Master Anderson
1874-75: Master J. Thompson

Voyages:
1869-70: Aberdeen - Baltic
1871-73: Hull - West Indies

General History:
06/08/1873:
June 30, 1873. FOR LONDON. The Fine Clipper-built British Brig FERRYHILL, Al at Lloyds, 248 tons per register, Barclay master. This Vessel is now here, and will be at Falmouth [Jamaica] on or about the 4th approx. where she will load with despatch for the above mentioned port. Intending shippers will please apply at once to Messrs. Nunes Bros., Falmouth, or here to NUNES BROS.
(Morning Journal (Kingston))

23/11/1875:
CALAIS, 21st Nov. - Thre crew of the FERRYHILL (brig), of Aberdeen which was totally lost 19th Nov., off this coast, have not been heard of, and all hands are supposed to have perished
(Lloyd's List)

24/11/1875:
CALAIS - Nov. 22: The pieces of the wreck of the brig FERRY HILL [sic] has been sold for 1,600 francs
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)