TRUE BLUE

Owner Aberdeen & London Shipping Co. (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1827

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 66 1/6' x breadth 26 1/12' x depth 11'
Registered Tonnage: 105 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002798

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Robert and Pether Matheson

Fate: Sold to be broken up Gothenburg, 14 September 1848

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged*, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, no figurehead

Owners:
1827: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Robert Mathison, shipbuilder, 6 shares; John Meston, dyer, 4 shares; Normand Yule, shipowner, 4 shares.
Other shareholders in 1827:
Robert Catto, merchant, 8 shares; James Cargill, shipmaster, 8 shares; Peter Mathison, shipbuilder, 6 shares; Isabella Fyfe, widow of the late Robert Mathison, timber merchant, 6 shares; Margaret Simpson, spinster, 4 shares; David Alexander, shoemaker, 4 shares; David Bunting, glass cutter, 4 shares; Andrew Pratt, grocer, 4 shares; Robert Farquharson, ship chandler, 2 shares; All Aberdeen. Alexander Fiddes, painter, Old Aberdeen, 2 shares; James Valentine, flesher, Old Aberdeen, 2 shares.
12/1836: Sold to Neil Smith & Co, Aberdeen.
04/1837: Sold to John Ogilvy, Aberdeen.
06/1840: Sold to Robert Spring, Aberdeen.
07/1843: Sold to William Leask, Aberdeen.
04/1844: Sold to John Ballintine, Lyme Regis.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping)

Masters:
1827-33: Master James Cargill
1834-41: Master W. Cargill
1843-44: Master J. Brunton

Voyages (from Lloyd's)
1830-32: Falmouth - Ireland
1833: London - Memel (Klaipeda - Lithuania)
1834-37: London - Aberdeen
1838-41: London - Stettin

General History:
18/12/1839:
About 2000 feet Irish elm, just imported per schooner TRUE BLUE from Dublin to be sold by public roup at Aberdeen 21 Dec.
(Aberdeen Journal)

24/03/1843:
Harwich, 20 March – schooner TRUE BLUE, of Aberdeen, from Dundee for London laden with anchors, chains, machinery, etc. has been assisted into port, having been on shore on the west rocks.
(Essex Standard)

26/07/1848:
Court of Session – timber merchant in Aberdeen R. Common, trustee in sequestered estate of W. Leask, shipowner in Aberdeen, against J. Ballinton, shipowner and inn keeper, Lyme Regis. Common claimed TRUE BLUE as part of the bankrupt estate of Leask and brought an action for settling aside alleged sale to Ballinton. Common had ship arrested in Aberdeen, but the Lord Ordinary [a judge] released her and she was removed from the harbour of Aberdeen. She could not get further than Seaham [Durham] because persons in charge of her did not have her certificate of registry. Common presented a reclaiming note to the court of session judges and they supported this. Ballinton had to find caution for £400, the estimated value of the vessel and pay expenses.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Condemned and sold at Gothenburg for breaking up, 14 September 1848.

*Note: Hemaphrodite rigged in Aberdeen Shipping Register, but Schooner rigged in Lloyd's register. Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.