GLENTANNER

Date1811

Object NameSNOW

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 77'10" x breadth 22'2" x depth 13'6"
gross tonnage 161 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002857

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: Sank at Lochmaddy, North Uist, December 1831

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged then brigantine rigged 1827, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners:
1814-20: Duff
1821-23: A. Mackie
1823-25: Mackenzie (Lloyd's underwriters)
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
David Milne, merchant, 64 shares
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) 1825, No. 69)
1827 Subscribing Owners: John Booth Jnr., merchant, 32 shares; Livingston Booth, merchant, 32 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1814-16: Master J. Laird
1816-20: Master T. Leslie
1821-22: Master J. Bigrie
1822: Master Murray
1823-24: Master J. Sellar
1824-25: Master J. Linklater
1825: Master Finlayson Kenn (Aberdeen register only, others from Lloyd's)
1826-27: Master J. Linklater
1828-30: Master William Walker

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1814-16: London - Gibralter
1816-20: London - Leghorn (Livorno, Italy)
1821-22: Darmouth - Sunderland
1823-24: London - Miramichi (New Brunswick)
1825-27: Greenock - Danzig
1828: Dublin coaster
1829-30: Belfast

General History:
In August 1815, Master James Laird, took 17 passengers to Halifax and Pictou, Canada.
((Lucille H. Campey (2002), "'Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed': Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots they carried to Canada 1774-1855" (Natural Heritage Books, Toronto), p. 21)
Left Tobermory July 1820 with 141 passengers bound for Quebec. 18 landed at Quebec, 123 landed at Cape Breton.The Inverness Journal printed a commendation to Captain George Murray for his humane treatment and to the owners for the good quality of the provisions from four people who had made the crossing in July 1820, one of whom was John McRa a surgeon from Plockton. (Campey, p. 47)
When the GLENTANNER a 160-ton brig built in 1811 carried her seventeen passengers in 1817, they have been accommodated in a cabin area; but when in 1840 she took 140 immigrants from Tobermory to Cape Breton and Quebec in a single crossing, they travelled as steerage passengers. This number could only have been accommodated by placing temporary decking on crossbeams along the full length of the hold. Thus, before leaving Aberdeen for Tobermory, planks would have been laid and the sides of her hold would have been lined with wooden berths (or bunks). Then having disembarked her passengers, she would have returned to Aberdeen with her hold brimmed full of timber. This was to be the pattern of emigrant travel for the next thirty years or so'.
(Campey, p. 90)

12/1831: Stranded at Lochmaddy, slipped off and sank, a wreck, Capt Skeen.
((Ian G. Whittaker (1998), "Off Scotland: A Comprehensive Record of Maritime and Aviation Losses in Scottish Waters" (C-ANNE publishing, Edinburgh), p. 274)