GEM

Date1849

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 74' x breadth 17' x depth 10'
gross tonnage 100 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002898

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Leslie

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1857 (G62)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, squre stern, iron clinch, no galleries, female figurehead, clipper bow.

Owner:
1849: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
James Robb, merchant, Aberdeen, 64 shares.
Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives)
(from 1850 GEM is in Lloyd's as owned by Best & Co. but in Aberdeen Post Office Directory is Robb Brothers & Co. until 1855, p.58, the confusion is perhaps explained by the fact that Best and Robb were in business together as Best, Robb & Co. 3 Affleck St. Aberdeen (Aberdeen Post Office Directory 1849, p. 130))

Masters:
1850-57: Master W. Duthie
1855: Master Ironside (Aberdeen Post Office Directory)

Voyages:
1850: Aberdeen - Hamburg
1851-52: London - Carthagena (Spain)
1853-57: London

General History:
17/02/1855:
SHIPPERS of BRANDY, per the Schooner "GEM,” will have information of her Arrival from Charente at Aberdeen, on application at the Office of the Subscribers, The Vessel is now discharging part of her Cargo at Leith, and may be expected at this Port in a few days. The "GEM" is open for Charter Sunderland, to which Port it is intended to despatch her on landing her Cargo here. JAs. BLACK & CO.. Produce Brokers, 33. King Street. Aberdeen, 6th Feb., 1855.
(Aberdeen Herald) [uncertain if this is the right GEM, it was a common name]