CATHERINE

Date1809

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 57'8" x breadth 18'4" x depth 10'
gross tonnage 80 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002895

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: wrecked, Thorntonloch, Dunbar, East Lothian, 29 July 1836.

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

Owners:
1813-19: Saunders
1822-23: Adams & Co.
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
Arthur Gibbon, 64 shares
(this vessel was sold to Arthur Gibbon by assignees appointed by the creditors of the previous owner.)
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping 1826, No. 40 (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 19, 1825; no. 40, 1826)
1835-36: Robson & Co., registered at Newcastle

Masters:
1813-19: Master William Trail
1820-23: Master A. Robb
1824-28: Master A. Baxter
1826: Master John Smith (Aberdeen Register)
1829-33: Master J. Mason
1835-36: Master R. Allison
1836: Master D. Moore

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1813-14: London - Cork
1815-19: London - Rotterdam
1820-21: Topsham - St. Petersburg
1822-23: Liverpool - London
1824: London coaster
1825-26: Leith coaster
1827-28: London - Rotterdam
1829-33: Leith coaster
1835-36: Newcastle - France

General History:
06/08/1836:
The schooner CATHERINE, of this port, from Dundee, struck on the Sands at Thornton Lock [sic], five miles east Dunbar, the 29th ult., [July] during a tremendous gale and heavy sea, and became total wreck the same afternoon. Crew saved.
(Newcastle Journal)

Notes: Some repairs in 1823
New deck and upper works/through repairs in 1826