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NEPTUNE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1844
Object NameBARQUE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 105' x breadth 22 9/12' x depth 16 1/3'
Registered Tonnage: 343 ton
Registered Tonnage: 343 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000313
Keywords
Fate: wrecked on Scharhorn, near Hamburg, in 1863.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, 1 and a half poop decks, 3 masts, male figurehead.
Owners:
26/08/1844: registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thompson Jr., shipowner, 12 shares; Thomas Blaikie, plumber, 11 shares; Henry Paterson, banker, 10 shares, all Aberdeen.
Other owners: Alexander Jopp, advocate, 11 shares; Robert Shand, advocate, 10 shares, Alexander Anderson, advocate, 10 shares.
23/06/1848: Alexander Anderson 10 shares to George Thompson Jr.
28/04/1849: George Thompson Jr. 10 shares to John Duncan, manufacturer.
04/06/1849: Alexander Jopp 11 shares and Robert Shand 10 shares to Duncan, manufacturer, Aberdeen.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1852: Cunningham, registered at Greenock (Lloyd's)
1859: Kirkwood, registered at Sunderland
Masters:
1844: Master Alexander Mackenzie
1845: Master Charles Stewart
1849: Master Richard Forrest
1852: Master R. Brown
1855: Master A. Dunlop
1857: Master R. Chambers
1859: Master T. Mills
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1852: Clyde - Madras.
1855: Clyde - West Indies.
1857-58: Clyde - Ceylon.
General History:
11/05/1855:
At Glasgow for Ceylon and Madras: the well known fast-sailing, newly surveyed and continued A1 barque NEPTUNE. Captain Dunlop, has two thirds of her cargo engaged and will be despatched to suit shippers.
(Glasgow Herald)
[22/06/1855 - will positively be despatched 30 June].
12/10/1855:
NEPTUNE, Chambers, from Clyde for Ceylon, in distress, put into Bahia [Brazil], 9th ult. [September]
(Greenock Advertiser)
06/03/1856:
NEPTUNE, Chambers, from the Clyde at Ceylon.
(Glasgow Courier)
09/10/1863:
Hamburg October 5: the barque NEPTUNE, Kemp, from Sunderland for this port (coals). Stranded Scharnhorn, wrecked and sunk. Crew saved.
(Newcastle Courant)
[Appears to be this vessel as Lloyd's Register shows her as registered Sunderland from 1859, lost 1863-64 (Edition in Aberdeen University Queen Mother Library) and disappears from Register thereafter].
1841
