DUCHESS OF GORDON

Date21 April 1830

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 48 5/6' x breadth 15 7/12' x depth 8 5/12'
Gross Tonnage: 51 70/94ton

Object numberABDSHIP001765

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duffus & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1843 (D335)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries. Fiddle figurehead added in April 1832.

Owners:
1830: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Hogarth and George Hogarth Junior, merchants & partners in Hogarth & Co., Aberdeen and William Hogarth, merchant and other partner 64 shares
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1841-43: port belonging to given as Inverness by Lloyd's, but no owner given.

Masters (Aberdeen Register):
20/04/1830: Master Giles Varall
24/06/1832: Master Robert Gilbert
28/03/1835: Master Thomas Colville
1839-43: Master William Harlow

Voyages:
1835-40: Aberdeen coaster
1841-43: Aberdeen - Wick