HENRY MICHIE

Date1827

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 57 5/6' x breadth 18 1/3' x depth 10 3/6'
Registered Tonnage: 82 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001741

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Stephen & Sons

Fate: sunk North Sunderland point, 9 March 1848.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Hermaphrodite schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners:
1827: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Stephen, shipbuilder, 4 shares; Forbes Michie, ship carpenter, 16 shraes; Robert Leitch, master, 24 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other shareholders;
Helen Murray, widow of Andrew Murray, late tanner in Longhaven, near Cruden Bay, 8 shares; Isobel Connon, wife of John Connon, ship carpenter, lately of Aberdeeen now of Banff, 8 shares; Jean Allan, wife of George Allan, shipmaster, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1842: Owner or agent William and George Steel (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1843-44: Owner or agent Levie (the master)
1845: Owner or agent Murray (the master)
1846-47: Owner or agent G. Presley

Masters:
1827-33: Master Robert Leitch (spelled Leech in Lloyd's)
1842: Master Linklater (PO Directory)
1843-44: Master Levie
1845-47: Master Murray

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1828-32: Cork - London
1833: Waterford coaster

General History:
11/03/1848:
NORTH SUNDERLAND, March 9.—The HENRY MICHIE, of Aberdeen, from Queen's Ferry to Warkworth, struck on North Sunderland Point this morning, and sank—crew saved.
(Morning Herald (London))

Note: Hermaphrodite rigged in Aberdeen Register, Schooner rigged in Lloyd's and Post Office Directory. Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.