GOLDEN FLEECE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Walter Hood & Co.
(Shipbuilder, Footdee, Aberdeen 1839 - 1881)
Date1856
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 145' x breadth 24' x depth 15'
Gross Tonnage: 359ton
Gross Tonnage: 359ton
Object numberABDSHIP000344
Keywords
Fate: unknown
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 1 deck and a break, 3 masts, male figurehead, round stern, carvel built, no galleries.
Owner:
12/07/1856: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Dennison, Aberdeen, shipowner, 24 shares; Samuel Williams, Aberdeen, merchant, 16 shares; James Alexander Steel, doctor of medicine, 4 shares; James Overend Haigh, manufacturer, 4 shares; George Jamieson, merchant, 4 shares; James Skinner, accountant, 4 shares [All Aberdeen]; John Robert Thomson and Harrison Watson, merchants, London (4 shares jointly); James Isaac Bennett and James Leigh Aspinwall, Shipbrokers, London (4 shares jointly).
19/05/1859: Bennet and Aspinwall 4 shares to Robert Edwin Smith, 12 Bread Street, cheapside, London, Gentleman.
24/11/1859: Smith 4 shares to William Horatio Hawkins, London, master mariner.
06/01/1860: Hawkins 4 shares to Henry Ellis, shipbroker, London.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1866:: Owner G. Broom, registered at London.
Master:
1858: Master Dennison.
1861: Master Hawkins.
1866-70: Master Keys.
Voyages (Lloyd's Register):
1858: Aberdeen - London.
1866-70: China.
1841
April 1867
