PHESDO

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1 May 1815

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 87' x breadth 26'1" x depth 16'9"
gross tonnage 255 40/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002877

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: uncertain, possibly Duthie.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1861 (P259).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, woman figurehead

Owners:
30/12/1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen for subscibing owners;
Alexander Duthie jnr, merchant, 36 shares; Robert Duthie, merchant, 4 shares; Alexander Crombie, advocate, 8 shares;
Other shareholders; Alexander Brown, merchant, 8 shares; William Dyce, physician, 4 shares; Andrew Pennan, shipmaster, 4 shares
all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 170, 1825)
1854-60: Elliott & Co., registered at Shields (1834-38 with R. Elliott as master she was registered at Newcastle, with no owner given, PHESDO then drops out of Lloyd's until the 1850s but it is possible that Elliott was master and owner)

Masters:
1819-23: Master A. Pennan
1823-24: Master W. Bishop
1825-26: Master Goldie
1825-30: Master Gillies McBain (Aberdeen Register, from 1826 in Lloyd's)
1830-33: Master J. Mitchell
1834-38: Master R. Elliott
1854-60: Master R. Young
1861: Master E. Wilson

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1819-23: London - Jamaica
1824: London - Demerara
1825-26: London - New Brunswick
1827-30: Leith
1831-33: Leith - Quebec
1854-58: Shields - Baltic
1860: Shields - London
1861: Shields - Baltic

General History:
Alexander Duthie's operation was focussed on the PHESDO, captained by Andrew Pennan whose "care and attention was seldom to be met with". An A1 brig she sailed with emigrants to St. Andrews and Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1815, the year she was built, and repeated the crossing in the two subsequent years, taking a total of 61 passengers to Halifax and Saint John.
Source: Lucille H. Campey (2002), "Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed" (Natural Heritage Books, Toronto), pp. 40-1)
PHESDO - Captain Andrew Pennan
May 1815 - carried 16 passengers to St. Andrews and Saint John.
April 1816 - carried 37 passengers to Halifax and Saint John. Also 90 packages of passengers wearing apparel and bedding.
March 1817 - carried 8 passengers to Halifax and 25 packages wearing apparal and bedding.
(Campey (2002), pp. 20-1, 23)

06/03/1816:
First spring vessel for Halifax and St. John's, New Brunswick [Canada]. That fine brig PHESDO, 244 tons register, Andrew Pennan Master, is now loading and those intending to ship goods will please do it as soon as possible as she will sail positively middle of March. Superior accommodation for passengers in this vessel (only her second voyage) and care and attention of the master is such as are seldom to be met with considerable part of cargo is engaged.
(Aberdeen Journal)

02/12/1819:
Plymouth, 25 November - arrived brig PHESDO, Pennan, from London for West Indies.
(Exeter Flying Post)

Note: Snow rigged in 1826 (Lloyd's underwriters).