FOX

Date1819

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 59'4" x breadth 19'4" x depth 10'1"
gross tonnage 91 55/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002876

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: sank north of Whitby, 13 October 1836.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern,carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen for owners; (originally no. 45, now no. 143)
William Thomson, merchant; John Gibbon, merchant; Andrew Simpson, merchant
plus George Lyall, George Henry, John Johnston, all merchants, all were trustees for Aberdeen & Hull Shipping Company
04/05/1832: Sold to David Buchan, blacksmith, in Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives), no. 143, 1825)
1838-45: Captain (i.e., J. Berwick), registered at Leith (Lloyd's)

Master:
1825: Master Alec Allan (Aberdeen Register)
1833-38: Master T. Findlay (as J. Finlay 1833)
1838-45: Master J. Berwick

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1833: Lynn coaster
1834-38: Leith - London
1839-40: Leith coaster
1841-43: Clyde - Rouen
1844-46: Leith coaster

General History:
15/03/1820:
Smack, FOX, Allan Master, for Hull, was obliged to cut from both cables near mouth of Humber and was driven ashore at North Summer Coats on Lincolnshire coast. Vessel immediately sank among the sand almost to the level with the decks and with greatest difficulty crew got on shore. Greatest part of cargo and all the stores saved, but much damaged.
(Aberdeen Journal)

25/07/1827:
To be sold by auction in Brown & Sons Sale Room, Union St. quantity of locks, castors, nails and hoops partly damaged, on board the FOX, hull smack and belonging to a sequestered estate.
(Aberdeen Journal)

21/07/1828:
On 9 July smack FOX, of Aberdeen, Gilbertson Master, picked up the boat containing the crew of the brig FAIR TRADER, of Yarmouth, which went down close to the FOX, wind N to NE, blowing very bad and a heavy sea, Captain Gibertson put the crew aboard a schooner bound for London.
(Caledonian Mercury)

19/10/1846:
STORM AT WHITBY.—This coast has been visited during the week with a severe storm, attended by the loss of both life and property. The wind all day on Monday blew a complete hurricane from the north-east, and the sea was fearfully agitated. About one o'clock on Monday morning, the smack FOX of Leith, Captain W. Berwick, sprung a leak to the northward of Whitby, and sunk almost immediately. The crew availed themselves of the only refuge left them—their boat, in which they landed at Staithes. The vessel was bound to Rouen with a cargo of pig-iron.
(Morning Herald (London))