FANCY

Date1808

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD; part fir

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 72' x breadth 22.4' x depth 13.2'
gross tonnage 148 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002990

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's underwriters 1833 (F114).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead.

Owners:
FANCY had Gibbon & Co. as owners from its first entry in Lloyd's underwriters in 1815 (F supplement 38), more details then come from the Aberdeen Register.
1827: registered at Aberdeen by subscribing owners;
Robert Gibbon Jnr, farmer, Kinmundy, Newmachar, 8 shares; Arthur Gibbon, merchant, Margaret Livingston, widow of the late Doctor William Livingston and Ann Gibson, spinster, all Aberdeen, 28 shares.
Other shareholders in 1827;
William Abercrombie, ship agent and Thomas Edwards, mahogany broker, both London, William Forbes Gibbon and Robert Gibbon, both of City of London, merchants. The said Arthur Gibbon, Margaret Livingston and Ann Gibbon as executors of the deceased Robert Gibbon, Merchant, 28 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1830-33: Owner, M. Hudson (Lloyd's)

Masters:
1815-18: Master J. Shutter
1819-26: Master J. Mitchell
1827-28: Master W. Jaffray
1830-33: Master J. R. Cutty

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1815-16: London - Rio de Janeiro
1818: Greenock - Montreal
1819-21: Dublin - London
1822: London
1823: Falmouth - Oporto
1824-25: Leith - Aberdeen
1826: Shields - London
1827-28: Leith - Aberdeen
1830-33: Plymouth coaster

General History:
15/09/1829:
Ramsgate, 14th September - "The FANCY, Cutty, from to Plymouth, has put in here with larboard bow stove [in], having been run foul of [i.e. hit] while at anchor in the Downs, by the ELIZABETH, Swan."
Lloyd's List

Note: 1818, new topsides of fir; 1820, new bottom and total repair; 1828, total repair again.