ABOYNE

Date1814

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 77' x breadth 22'2" x depth 13'5"
gross tonnage 156 60/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002893

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1856 (A28).

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

Owners:
1815-21: Guthrie & Co., registered at Aberdeen (Lloyd's)
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners:
R. Duthie, 26 shares; J. Philips, 4 shares; A. Leslie, 4 shares
Other shareholders in 1826;
Alexander Duthie, Ruthrieston, 8 shares; Alexander Lon, merchant, 4 shares; Cumming Laing, merchant, 2 shares; John Dickie, merchant, 2 shares; James Strachan, bookbinder, 2 shares; Alexander Crombie, advocate, 8 shares; Thomas Burnett, advocate, 4 shares; Elizabeth Laird, relic of the deceased James Laird, shipmaster, 4 shares; Barbara Gordon, spinster, 1 share; Helen Gordon, spinster, 1 share; all Aberdeen.
10/04/1829: Ship sold to George and Matthew Lamb of Durham.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives), no. 33, 1814; no. 28, 1826)
1829-33: Lamb & Co. (Lloyd's)
1834-37: Turvel & Co., registered at Portsmouth
1838-41: Clark & Co., registered at Portsmouth
1842-43: E. R. Cole, registered at Rochester
1844-53: G. Billing, registered at King's Lynn
1853-56: R. Hoodless of North Somercotes

Masters:
1815-22: Master A. Leslie
1822-28: Master J. Walker
1826: Master Thomas Ninean (Aberdeen Register)
1831-33: Master M. Lamb
1834-41: Master G. Foster
1842-43: Master Rayne
1844-50: Master C. Billing
1850-52: Master J. Bullin
1854-56: Master J. Johnston

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1815: London - Gothenburg
1816: London - Straits of Gibraltar
1818: London - Venice
1819-21: Liverpool - Copenhagen
1822: London - Marseilles
1823-27: Liverpool - Santo Domingo
1831-33: Exmouth coaster
1834-36: Portsmouth - Glasgow
1836: Portsmouth - Sunderland
1837-41: Portsmouth
1842-43: Sunderland - Rochester.
1844-45: Hartlepool coaster
1845-47: Lynn coaster
1850-52: Lynn coaster
1853: King's Lynn - Baltic
1854: Hull - Mediterranean

General History:
10/03/1824:
For St. John's, New Brunswick, fine sailing brig ABOYNE, Thos Ninian commander, will be ready to receive goods 1 March and will positively sail 15 March. For freight or passage apply Robert Duthie. [Repeated 04/08/1824]
(Aberdeen Journal)

15/10/1828:
For sale, about 1000 barrels tar, daily expected by brig ABOYNE from Archangel. Robert Duthie.
(Aberdeen Journal)

21/03/1829:
For sale by private contract the good brig ABOYNE, of Aberdeen, George Morrison master, burthen per register 158 tons, built Aberdeen of best English oak timber and plank and copper fastened; is abundantly found with good materials, sails very fast, requires little ballast and will carry sail without any, stows very large cargo at an easy draught of water and is in every respect a handy good vessel. Inventory and particulars from Capt. Morrision aboard vessel lying at North Quay or to Thomson, Catto & Co., coal fitters, Monkwearmouth shore.
(Newcastle Courant)

13/01/1834:
For sale by public auction 17 Jan. At Black Dog, Emsworth (for account of the underwriters) hull of the brig ABOYNE, George Foster master, of 160 tons register, as she now lies stranded on Thorney Island about 3 miles from Emsworth, together with part of her cargo, 8 keels of coals.
(Hampshire Telegraph)

23/02/1853:
The ABOYNE registered in Kings Lynn, built in 1814 in Aberdeen, now snow brig rigged, was stranded at Donna Nook, Tetney High Sand, near Grimsby. She was on a voyage from Kings Lynn to Hartlepool with six of a crew. She was lost in wind conditions N.N.E. Force 10. The hull and materials were sold locally for £65. Financial loss on the vessel was estimated at £935, but was insured for only £500.
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1996), "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" (Lloyd's Register, London), vol. 3)

08/04/1853:
Grimsby, 30 March - Brig ABOYNE, of Lynn, stranded at Tetney, has been bought by Mr. Hoodless of North Somercotes, who succeeded in getting her off the beach and she was towed into Grimsby by steam tug ENDEAVOUR.
Hull Packet

Note: between 1834 and 1844 the ship is in Lloyd's as a Sunderland built ship, but the year of build and the tonnage would suggest an error.