OCEAN

Date1814

Object NameSNOW

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 88.2' x breadth 26' x depth 16.6'
gross tonnage 241 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002962

Keywords

About MeYard: unknown, probably Robert Gibbon

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1832 (O52)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 deck with beams

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Arthur Gibbon, Margaret Gibbon otherwise loving relicts of the now deceased Dr William Livingston, physician and Ann Gibbon, spinster, all Aberdeen, 28 shares.
Other shareholders in 1826;
Executors of Robert Gibbon, late merchant in Aberdeen, their father together with William Abercrombie of Bircher Lane, ships agent and Thomas Edwards of Nicholas Lane, mahogany broker, both of the City of London as assignees on the bankrupt Estate of Arthur Gibbon, merchant in Aberdeen and William Forbes Gibbon and Robert Gibbon of the City Chambers in the City of London, merchants, dealers, and chapmen, 36 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
The registry or re-registry starts in 1826 but Lloyd's underwriters shows OCEAN as owned by R. Gibbon or Gibbons for its whole existence.

Masters:
1816-18: Master A. Hogg
1819: Master J. Goldie
1819-32: Master J. Struthers

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1815-17: London - Quebec
1818: Liverpool - Sicily
1819-20: London - Jamaica
1821-22: London - West Indies
1823-24: London - Cape of Good Hope
1825: Liverpool - Dublin
1826-32: Liverpool - Quebec

General History:
27/02/1815:
We are to observe safe arrival of brig OCEAN, of Aberdeen, at London. This vessel, of about 260 tons register, sailed from Shields to London on her first voyage before the late storm and, after being nearly a month at sea, was heard of on Friday.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

10/01/1816:
New brig OCEAN, Hogg, of this place, about 260 tons register, after breaking her moorings, parted from one of her bow anchors, owing to a tier of vessels coming down on her, she went athwort hawse of a ship sunk on the bar, by which accident she was upset. The crew were obliged for their preservation to jump onto the sunk vessel. The OCEAN, after swinging clear, departed to sea with loss of her bowsprit, lower topmast, etc. We are happy to state she was picked up by the VENUS, of Sunderland, and towed into Shields on Tuesday.
(Aberdeen Journal)