SPORTSMAN

Owner John Lumsden & Co. (Aberdeen, Scotland)

DateApril 1831

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD; Cedar

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 65 1/6' x breadth 21 1/12' x depth 12 5/12'
registered tonnage 122 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001767

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duffus & Co.

Fate: foundered 20 miles off Tod Head, Catterline near Stonehaven, 10 September 1859.

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

Owner:
25/04/1831: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
John Lumsden, merchant, Aberdeen, North Britain, 32 shares.
Other owners; Alexander Shepherd Leith esq., County of Aberdeen, 32 shares.
09/07/1831: Leith 32 shares to John Lumsden.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1846-50: owner or agent, Alexander Morrice (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1851-59: owner or agent, George Elsmie & Son (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)

Masters:
1831-40: Master James Hutchison
1841-46: Master D. Main
1846: Master Leyden (PO Aberdeen Directory)
1847-48: Master Wilson
1849-50: Master Burgess
1851-59: Master Grant

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1833: Cowes.
1834-37: Aberdeen - the Mediterranean
1838-39: London - Newcastle
1840-43: Aberdeen - Archangel
1844: Aberdeen - Riga

General History:
25/10/1848:
To be exposed for sale by public roup at Office of William Frederick Ogg, Advocate, Adelphi Court, Aberdeen, shares of ships belonging to the Trust Estate of Alexander Morice, Shipowner in Aberdeen... one half of brig SPORTSMAN, of Aberdeen, burden 143 tons new measure.
(Aberdeen Journal)

SPORTSMAN, Aberdeen schooner, built 1831, foundered 20 miles off Tod Head, Catterline near Stonehaven 10/09/1859.
(Ian G. Whittaker (1998), "Off Scotland: A Comprehensive Record of Maritime and Aviation Losses in Scottish Waters" (C-ANNE publishing, Edinburgh), p. 173)

Note: In Lloyd's as schooner rigged, in Aberdeen Register as Hermaphrodite rigged. Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.