DEACON

Date1868

Object NameLUGGER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength: 57.5 x Breadth: 17.6' x Depth: 6.8'
Gross Tonnage: 39 tons.

Object numberABDSHIP003030.118

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Leckie, Wood & Munro, Torry, Kincardine.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 1 mast, lugger rigged, round stern, clencher built, no gallery, no figurehead, iron framework.

Owner:
05/05/1868: Aberdeen registry opened. George Imlay, Newburgh, flesher (64 shares), Mortgage to Andrew Leckie, George Paterson Wood and John Munro, engineers, Torry for £500 plus interest at 5% per annum.
15/01/1870: Mortgage discharged to Andrew Leckie and John Munro, iron shipbuilders, Torry. George Imlay sells 64 shares to Andrew Leckie and John Munro.
28/01/1870: Joint owners mortgage for £1,000 and interest at 5% to secure account to: William Scott, Queen Street Quay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant and Philip Thompson Brantingham, Woodford, Essex, shipowner.
18/04/1870: 64 shares sold to John Sharp Henderson, Aberdeen, advocate.
15/07/1871: Mortgage discharged.
21/03/1873: 64 shares to William Cumsfie Williamson, 39 Clyde Place, Glasgow, merchant.
01/04/1873: Registry transferred to Glasgow.

31/03/1904:
The Early Days on Trawling at Aberdeen. In view of the launch today of the S. S. Choice from the yard of Mr John Duthie at Torry, it may be of interest to say that we have had an opportunity of seeing a written copy of an offer which was made by Baille Meff's father to the owners of the vessel DEACON, which was launched in 1870 from almost the same place as is now occupied by Mr Duthie's yard. The offer shows that Mr Meff was prepared to hire the DEACON at the sum of £3 per week, keep her in through repair, fit her with a 40 feet trawl and warp and other requirements for trawl fishing. The offer was not accepted on behalf of the owners of the DEACON. The document in question further bears that some of the catchers of the DEACON, which trawled between Aberdeen and Newburgh in 1871-72, were as follows: February, 1871 - Flukes £8 16s, turbot £1 7s; March - Flukes and turbot, £20; April - Flukes and turbot £15. The vessel discontinued fishing because although a large quantity of turbot was caught, there was no sale for it except in the hotels in Aberdeen, and the supply greatly exceeded the demand. It is needless to say that present day figures show that the trawling industry has developed enormously since the days of the DEACON. It may be mentioned that as far back as the year 1590 trawling was commenced at Greyhope.
(Press and Journal)