SOUTHERNER

Date1859

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 67.7' x breadth 19' x depth 8.4'
gross tonnage 61 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002927

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: David Burns & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1869 (S618)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, no figurehead, wood construction.

Owners:
1859: Registered in Aberdeen for joint owners;
William Webster, baker, 10 shares; David Mauor, teacher, 10 shares; John McLauchlan, shipowner 10 shares; Hugh Fraser snr, China merchant, 10 shares; William Harvey, spirit dealer, 10 shares; George Thomson, miller, 10 shares (all of Aberdeen); Wiliam Rainie, farmer, Fyvie 4 shares.
24/05/1861: Registration transferred to Glasgow.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1863-69: A. Chisholm, registered at Greenock

Masters:
1861-62: Master Bannerman
1863-64: Master D. McCallum
1865-69: Master W. Nicol

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1861-62: Aberdeen coaster
1863-64: Clyde coaster
1865-69: Clyde - Mediterranean

General History:
03/02/1859:
REGULAR COMMUNICATION Leith, Aberdeen, Helmsdale, Littleferry, Brora, & Portmahomack. _ THE New Clipper Packet "NORTHERNER" of the Aberdeen, Leith, and Northern Shipping Company, sails regularly from LEITH and ABERDEEN, carrying Goods and landing them in the Harbours of theabove Ports.
AGENTS.
Leith - L. Rose & Co., 23 Commercial Place
Helmsdale - Donald Ross.
Littleferry & Brora - W. B. James, Golspie.
Tain - Thomas Flint.
Portmahomack - David Denoon.
HUGH FRASER, Jun, Manager, 47 Marischal Street, Aberdeen. P-S.—The Company's Smack "SOUTHERNER" (which is intended to Sail regularly in connection with the Smack " NORTHERNER"), now building, will sail from Leith, her first voyage, on or about the 1st of March.
(John o' Groat Journal)

20/02/1867:
The smack SOUTHERNER, in entering Duke's Dock Runcorn, on Monday, struck against the pier and drove the anchor flue through her port bow. She commenced filling rapidly, but owing to the prompt action of the dock foreman (Mr. Evans) she was kept afloat, and her cargo (clay) discharged. The vessel is without any further damage.
(Liverpool Shipping Telegraph and Daily Commercial Advertiser)