NORTHERNER

Date1858

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD; Oak frames, Elm Bottom, Pine upper works

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 58.9' x breadth 17.15' x depth 8.25'
gross tonnage 47.56 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002928

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: David Burns & Co.
Official Number: 22525

Fate: stranded on Annaside beach, Bootle, Cumbria, 28 January 1872.

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

Owners:
14/08/1858: Registered at Aberdeen for owners;
Hugh Fraser, commission agent, 56 shares; Thomas Rennie, superintendent of Victor Lodging House 4 shares; Robert Hogg, shipmaster 4 shares, all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 24, 1858)
1864-72: E. Cornish, registered at Holyhead
1873-75: J. Bragg & Co.

1859-63: Master R. Hogg
1864-70: Master D. Williams
1871-75: Master T. Owers

Voyages:
1859-63: Aberdeen coaster
1864-75: Bangor coaster

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)

07/01/1860:
CLIPPER SMACK, "NORTHERNER," FOR SALE. THE Smack, “NORTHERNER,” of Aberdeen, belonging to the Aberdeen and Northern Shipping Company, together with her Boat whole Gearings, conformable to Inventory, will be exposed for Sale Auction, on or about Friday the 3d February next, within the Lemon Tree Hotel, in Aberdeen, at Seven o'clock, P.M. Upset price £400. This Vessel was built under special survey, in August. 1858, and cost upwards of £800, and classes seven years Lloyd's, admeasuring 47 1/2 tons; measuring 56 feet keel; beam, 17 feet 3 inches; depth of hold, 17 feet. Frame, Baltic and British oak; Bottom, American elm; Top Sides, pitch pine and American red pine. Copper-fastened, and most complete in all her gearing and other requisites. The Vessel at present is on a voyage, but is expected in Aberdeen about the 20th current, and can then be surveyed. For Inventory and Conditions of Sale, intending Purchasers may please apply Mr. Hugh Fraser, 55, Castle Street, Aberdeen. Aberdeen,. 7th January, 1860.
(Aberdeen Herald)

02/02/1872:
NORTHERNER. —Report of Thomas Owen, Master of the smack NORTHERNER, of Beaumaris, 47 tons, from Drogheda for Duddon (in ballast);—Left Drogheda Jan. 27, wind N.N.W., moderate. Proceeded, and on 28th, at 8 p.m., weather very thick, wind S, strong, ship was sailing under jib, foresail, and double-reefed mainsail, steering N.E. E. course, making for Whitehaven, as we were unable to reach Duddon consequence of the thick state of the weather. We were following a brig, which was apparently making for this port, and about 8 p.m. came up to her, and found her aground when were about a cable's length to the leeward of her. We also touched the ground. We lowered our mainsail and head sails, thinking that would prevent her from going further ashore. The sea, however, drove her higher the beach, then dropped our working anchor, but as the vessel was broadside on the sea, and rolled so much that it was unsafe to remain her, we then slipped the anchor and fathoms of chain, and let her drive on the beach stem fore meat. We remained on board until the tide turned, when found that we were ashore about two miles S.W. of Bootle. If the weather continues moderate she may be got off. Several men from Poolfoot assisted getting two the men ashore.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)

11/11/1872:
HULL AND MATERIALS OF THE SMACK NORTHERNER, AT POOLE FOOT, NEAR BOOTLE, FOR SALE. be SOLD by Auction, on Saturday, April 13th, 1872, at One p.m., the HULL and Materials of the Smack NORTHERNER, 47 tons, she now lies on the Bench, consisting of Mast, Spars, Standing and Running Rigging, Anchors, Chains, Boat, Sails, Hawsers, Warps, &c. The Hull is metal fastened. The Sails are nearly all new and in good condition. JAMES JACKSON, Auctioneer.
(Whitehaven News)

Note: Sloop rigged in Lloyd's
The length of time between the stranding and the sale of the hull suggests that there was no hope of the vessel being got off intact and that it was a fatal event despite NORTHERNER continuing in Lloyd's for three more years.