FIVE SISTERS

Date1840

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Fir and Oak

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength: 25.9ft x Breadth: 19.5ft x Depth: 12.4ft
Gross tonnage: 146 tons

Object numberABDSHIP003030.53

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: unknown

Fate: wrecked at La Perelle bay, Guernsey, 3 March 1848.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprint, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, female figurehead.

Owners:
1840: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
James Strachan, farmer, Midstrath., Aberdeenshire, 38 shares; John Warrack, farmer, Kinharachy, 13 shares; George Johnstone, Mains of Inkhorn, Aberdeenshire, 13 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1845-48: Brown & Co., registered at Glasgow (Lloyd's)

Masters:
1841: Master Gilberson
1843-44: Master Morrice
1845-48: Master Ritchie

Voyages (Lloyds Registers):
1841: Aberdeen - Hull
1843-44: Aberdeen - Liverpool
1845: Glasgow - Tobago
1846: Clyde - Gibraltar
1847-48: Clyde - Cuba

General History:
29/11/1844:
Arrived in the Clyde, brig FIVE SISTERS (146 tons) of Glasgow, Macmillan master, from Montreal in 23 days.
(Glasgow Herald)

11/02/1845:
At Glasgow for Tobago, 1st class British built, fast sailing coppered brig FIVE SISTERS, Charles Macmillan master, will be ready to receive goods in a few days, as considerable part of the cargo engaged, immediate despatch.
(Glasgow Herald)

25/07/1845:
Arrived Clyde, brig FIVE SISTERS (146 tons) of Glasgow, Ritchie master, from Tobago in 44 days.
(Glasgow Herald)

27/08/1847:
Arrived Clyde, brig FIVE SISTERS, of Glasgow, from Cienfuego, Cuba, in 63 days, sailed 22 June.
(Glasgow Herald)

07/03/1848:
Guernsey, 4th March.
FIVE SISTERS (Brig), of Glasgow, from Lisbon to Wick, James Magee, Master
(Lloyd's List)

07/03/1848:
GUERNSEY, March 3.—The FIVE SISTERS, of Glasgow, from Lisbon to Wick, came on shore in La Perelle Bay, this morning, a derelict, and is a total wreck; two bodies and a principal part of the spars have been washed on shore. A quantity of cork is on board; the salt all washed out. She is supposed to have struck a rock outside, during the night, her anchors and chains having been found there, and the log entered as late as midnight.
(Morning Herald (London) )

07/04/1848:
Drowned at sea 3 March, Mr James Hogarth, mate of the brig FIVE SISTERS, of Glasgow, youngest son of the late Mr William Hogarth
(Glasgow Herald)

Note: Some repairs 1846