GLENTANNER

Date1842

Object NameSHIP

MediumWOOD: Oak, Fir and Elm

ClassificationsShip

Dimensions524 tons

Object numberABDSHIP003019

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: wrecked on Rocas Atoll, Brazil, 2 January 1862.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged, constructed of oak, fir and elm, sheathed with yellow metal.

Owner:
1842-43: Yule & Co., registered at Aberdeen
1843-49: Johnstone, registered at Liverpool
1850-51: Hyde & Co.

Masters:
1842-43: Master Anderson
1843-49: Master G. Brock
1850-51: Master G. Taylor

Voyages:
1842-43: Aberdeen - Africa
1843-45: Liverpool - Sydney
1847: London
1848-49: London - Calcutta
1850: London - Cape of Good Hope

General History:
26/10/1858:
On Thursday, at Lloyd's Captains Rooms, Messrs Clark & Baglehole disposed of, at public auction, the following vessels,—The ship GLENTANNER, 610 tons, built at Aberdeen, for £2250
(Glasgow Courier)

24/12/1858:
The Emigration Commissioners have taken up the ships GLENTANNER and JAMES JARDINE for the conveyance of passengers, respectively, to Moreton Bay and Adelaide.
(Daily News (London))

10/10/1859:
The ship GLENTANNER, 610 tons, Captain Wilson, with 243 immigrants, arrived at Moreton Bay on the 6th July. She left Southampton February 23 and has made a long passage. Measles and scarlatina prevailed during the voyage, and there were twenty-three deaths, four of that number being adults. The number of births during the passage was nine. The ship was declared clean by the Health Officer, and the immigrants were speedily brought up to the depot. During the voyage a seaman, named Thomas Brown, accidentally fell from the rigging and was drowned.
(Australian and New Zealand Gazette)

03/02/1862:
Pernambuco Jan. 14
The British ship GLENTANNER, of London, 610 tons register, Wilson master, which vessel sailed from Callao, Nov. 8, with a cargo of guano, bound for Queenstown for orders, was wrecked on the Roccas Shoal, about 125 miles north east of Cape S. Roque, on the morning of the 2d inst. The mate and seven sailors arrived here in a boat on the 6th inst., and another boat with the master and eight sailors is supposed to have landed to the northward.
(Morning Herald (London))