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Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, c.1826 - 1839)
Date13 August 1825
Object NameSCHOONER
MediumWOOD; Fir
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 61' x breadth 18 5/12' x depth 10 1/12'
Registered Tonnage: 86 47/94 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001713
About MeYard: William Rennie

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1837 (F133).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, one deck, two masts, schooner rigged, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead; Constructed with "Scotch Fir", iron bolts and cables.

Owners:
20/09/1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Adam, shoemaker, Aberdeen, 20 shares; James Hector, salmon boiler, Aberdeen, 16 shares; George Skues, Lieutenant Royal Marines, Aberdeen, 4 shares
Other owners 1825; William Fettes, salmon fisher, Nigg, Aberdeen, 8 shares; John Hector Junior, salmon fisher, Nigg, Aberdeen, 8/64; John Hector, salmon fisher, Bellie, Banffshire, 8 shares
(Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives) (CE87/11/5) no. 86, 1825)
03/12/1834: Re-registered de novo; Robert Sangster, mariner, Aberdeen, 64 shares
05/12/1834: Robert Sangster sells 34 shares to Alexander Adam, shoemaker, Aberdeen
(Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 51, 1834)
03/06/1836: Re-registered de novo.
(Aberdeen Register of Ships (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 6, 1836)

Masters (from Aberdeen Register):
1826-27: Master Alexander Watson
1827-28: Master John Leslie
1828-30: Master Samuel Tulloch
1830: Master Alexander White
1831-32: Masters James Ross / Richard Beaton
1833: Master Robert Granger
1834: Master Robert Sangster
1834-37: Master Granger (Lloyd's)

Voyages (Lloyd's):
1826-33: London coaster
PACIFIC
DUTHIE
4 June 1834
MAZEPPA
William Reid
9 August 1834
ANN
William Rennie
April 1827
Nicol Reid & Co.
June 1822
RAPID
DUTHIE
1834
TRAVELLER
DUTHIE
December 1839
ABERDEEN
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
March 1871
PHESDO
DUTHIE
1 May 1815
QUEBEC PACKET
Nicol Reid & Co.
10 April 1822
FAVOURITE
Nicol Reid & Co.
6 September 1838
THEOPHILUS
Nicol Reid & Co.
April 1818
MEDORA
Alexander HALL & Co.
1839
SYLVANUS
DUTHIE
1 April 1830
CONCORD
11 May 1815
sepia toned photograph of clipper 'rifleman'
DUTHIE
February 1860
MOUNTAINEER
Alexander HALL & Co.
1821
SCOTSMAN
Alexander Farquharson
25 October 1825