VICTORIA

Shipbuildervessel built by Walter Hood & Co. (Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)

Owner Aberdeen Lime Company

Date10 January 1849

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD: Oak & Larch

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 97 9/12' x breadth 20 5/6' x depth 13 3/12'
Registered Tonnage: 180 840/3500 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000327

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Walter Hood & Co.

Fate: Lost in Bridlington Bay, 19 November 1893.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, with 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries, female figure head.

Owners:
1849: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Nicol, Henry Adamson merchants, Aberdeen & James Shanks, slater, Aberdeen.
09/1875: Sold to Alexander Nicol and H. Adamson.
1876: Henry Adamson dies, John Blaickie Nicol, Aberdeen, shipowner, appointed executor.
1877: Owned by Aberdeen Lime Co., Aberdeen.
07/01/1886: 64 shares sold to the undernoted:
Arthur Farquhar, draughtsman, Aberdeen, 22 shares; John Cameron, shipwright, Aberdeen, 18 shares; John Christies, shipmaster, Aberdeen, 12 shares; James Gemlo, shipwright, Aberdeen, 12 shares.
07/12/1893: Certificate lost with vessel and registry closed.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1849-53: Master George Hay
1854-62: Master James Allan
1862: Master Crombie

Voyages:
1849-62: Aberdeen - London