JOLLY BATCHELOR

Date1813

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD; elm

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 61'8" x breadth 18'11" x depth 10'9"
gross tonnage 93 66/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002894

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown, probably Robert Gibbon.

Fate: lost near Fraserburgh, late October 1830.

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

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Arthur Gibbon, Margaret Gibbon, Ann Gibbon, 36 shares (jointly)
(Bought from creditors of former owner - see note)
Other shareholders in 1826:
Arthur Gibbon for himself and Margaret Gibbon otherwise Livingston, Ann Gibbon and the said Arthur Gibbon as executors of the deceased Robert Gibbon, late merchant, Aberdeen, 28 shares.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 49, 1813; no. 41, 1826)

Masters:
1814-15: Master John James
1818-19: Master A. Davidson
1820-22: Master Cadenhead
1823-24: Master W. Jaffray
1824-26: Master W. Walker
1826-30: Master J. Mason (John Masson in Aberdeen Register)

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1814-15: Cowes - Gibraltar
1818-19: London - Leghorn (Livorno, Italy)
1820: London - Madeira
1821-22: Bristol - Oporto
1823: Liverpool - Lisbon
1824: Cork
1825-26: London coaster
1827-30: Cork coaster

General History:
01/11/1830:
Aberdeen, Oct. 27.—It feared the JOLLY BACHELOR, from Easdale to Sunderland, is lost, with her crew, near Fraserburgh, her jolly boat, three oars, &c., and the bodies of two men, having been washed on shore
(Evening Mail, no. 9576.)

Note: the share holdings are a little difficult to interpret; Lloyd's had Gibbon or 'Gibson' as owner for the ship's whole life so it seems likely that a portion of Robert Gibbon's shares went to pay creditors on his death and were then bought back by Margret, Ann, and Arthur and so these remained in a different category to those which the same trio were executors for directly.