LOCHBULIG
DateJuly 1871
Object NameSCHOONER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 136 1/6' x breadth 25 1/6' x depth 14 1/3'
Gross Tonnage: 333 ton
Registered Tonnage: 400ton
Gross Tonnage: 333 ton
Registered Tonnage: 400ton
Object numberABDSHIP001701
Keywords
Official Number: 65077
Fate: wrecked on Liuqui island, Taiwan, on 16 October 1875.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 3 masts, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, three quarters male figurehead, wood frame.
Owners:
1871: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Richard Connon, Alexander Dyer, merchants and shipowners, joint owners 52 shares, Susan Flockhart or Hughes, wife of James Hughes of Montrose, shipmaster, 12 shares.
02/1873: Sold in Shanghai [presumably to Morris, Lewis & Co.]
16/101875: Vessel stranded and lost 16th Oct. 1875 on Lambay Island, Southern Formosa, certificate cancelled.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Register (Aberdeen City Archives))
1873: J. Morris, registered in Birkenhead (Lloyd's)
1874-75: Morris, Lewis & Co., registered in Shanghai
Masters:
1872-75: Master Hughes
Voyages:
1872-73: Aberdeen - China
27/05/1873:
SHANGHAE [sic]—April 10: [...] There are at present in dock the three-masted schooner LOCHBULIG for repairs to bottom, she having been aground coming out of Newchwang, and the brig BRITAIN’S PRIDE, for examination.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)
14/10/1873:
FREIGHT REPORT SHANGHAI —Aug. 22: [...] LOCHBULIG schooner, 333 [tons], monthly charter for 12 mouths, at $1,050 per month.
(Liverpool Journal of Commerce)
26/10/1875:
AMOY (via Hong Hong)—Oct. 24: The three masted schooner LOCHBULIG, of Aberdeen, is totally wrecked at Lambay Island, Formosa [i.e, Liuqui, Taiwan]; crew saved.
(Liverpool Journal of Commerce)
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