PRINCE OF WALES
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1842
Object NameBARQUE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 133 1/3' x breadth 26' x depth 18 5/6'
Registered tonnage 583 ton
Registered tonnage 583 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000306
Keywords
Fate: Unknown, crew reported murdered in Brazil, 1861.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, 2 decks, poop and forecastle, 3 masts, male figurehead.
Owners:
04/07/1842: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thompson Jr., shipowner, 12 shares; Robert Shand, advocate, 10 shares; Henry Paterson, banker, 10 shares [All Aberdeen].
Other owners: Thomas Blaikie, merchant, 11 shares; Alexander Jopp, advocate, 11 share; Alexander Anderson, advocate, 10 shares.
Share sales:
23/06/1848: Anderson 10 shares to Thompson.
04/06/1849: Jopp 11 shares and Shand 10 shares to John Duncan, manufacturer, Aberdeen.
26/09/1849: Duncan 16 shares to Charles Stuart, shipmaster, Aberdeen; Blaikie 11 shares, Duncan 5 shares and Trustees of Paterson 10 shares to Thompson.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Masters:
1842-50: Master Alex Alexander
1850: Master C. Stuart
29/06/1842:
Launched Saturday last beautiful barque named PRINCE OF WALES. For build and general appearance has never been surpassed [...] reflecting great credit on the taste and professional skill of the builder, Mr Hood. Leaves immediately for London to lay on for Madras and Calcutta. Adds another vessel to our rapidly increasing fleet of shipping.
(Aberdeen Journal)
20/01/1843:
New Zealand: the barque PRINCE OF WALES has arrived after a voyage of 110 days from Gravesend. She brought out 27 cabin passengers, some for Wellington, some for Nelson, a number of intermediate and 170 steerage. One of the gentlemen, an intending settler, had brought with him a saw-mill, which he intended erecting in one of the wooded districts.
(Hobart Courier)
26/03/1845:
Arrived in the Clyde the barque PRINCE OF WALES (582) of Aberdeen, Alexander, from Ichaboe, sailed 5 January and from St. Helena 15th. Left at Ichaboe about 250 sail (awaiting Guano cargo?) and about 100 sailed in ballast. A serious misunderstanding had taken place between the shipmasters and agents, the result unknown as the PRINCE OF WALES left prior to it being adjusted.
(Aberdeen Journal)
13/05/1847:
Sydney Shipping: May 11 - PRINCE OF WALES, barque, 582 tons, Captain Middleton, from the Downs 19th and Plymouth 30th January. The PRINCE OF WALES has made an excellent run of 100 days from Plymouth.
(Maitland Mercury)
24/06/1863:
Letter received intimating that Mrs. Joseph Bell, Broughty Ferry, widow of the late Chief Mate of the unfortunate barque PRINCE OF WALES of Glasgow whose crew, it's believed, were barbarously murdered on the coast of Brazil sometime about June 1861, is to receive her share of the compensation money recently paid by the Brazilian Govt. the sum of £150 (being £50 for herself and £33.6.8 for each of her 3 children).
(Aberdeen Journal)
1841
September 1826
