PLOUGHMAN

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

ShipownerAssociated with George Milne & Co (Aberdeen, Scotland)

DateNovember 1867

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 103' 3" x breadth 23' x depth 12' 9"
gross tonnage: 177 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000368

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Walter Hood & Co.

Fate: Wrecked off the Humber, about 18 November 1894.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 2 masts, brig rigged, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, shield figurehead.

Owners:
29/11/1867: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thomson Jnr, Alexander Davidson & Alexander Jopp, advocates, all Aberdeen.
09/01/1869: Certificate cancelled, vessel registered de novo.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1869: Owners registered as Aberdeen Commercial Company, remained until 1889.
1889-90: Owners G. Milne & Co. (Lloyd's)
1891-1893: Owner J. Cameron

Masters:
1867: Master D. Petty
1876-77: Master J. Mackenzie
1889-90: Master P. Fairweather
1891-93: Master J. Christie

General History:
14/12/1875:
Blackwall, Dec. 12 - The MINERVA (S) of London, bound up, was run into by the PLOUGHMAN (brig) of and from Aberdeen off here this morning. The latter vessel lost jib-boom and bowsprit and had her headgear and figure carried away. The MINERVA has damage to her bulwarks.
(Glasgow Herald)

06/04/1877:
Last evening the brig PLOUGHMAN of Aberdeen and the schooner JANE GWYNNE of Aberystwyth went ashore at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour. It is expected both will be got off.
(Belfast Newsletter)

15/12/1883:
Disastrous gale, Aberdeen - about 4 o'clock the storm seemed to have reached a climax and the schooner LUNA, berthed at Queen's Jetty opposite Waterloo Railway Station, drifted across the dock and ran into the brig PLOUGHMAN with violence sufficient to break in two the vessel's foreyard.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

19/01/1894:
Great storm - no information has been yet received regarding the brig PLOUGHMAN, which was on a voyage from London to Aberdeen, and must have been caught in the storm. The SS COUNTESS of Aberdeen reports having sighted a brig which looked like the PLOUGHMAN making for the Humber. A number of relatives of the crew are naturally anxiously awaiting tidings. Mr. W. R. Aitkin, the local agent, is of opinion that Captain Christie held to sea when the storm burst and that he will soon arrive at some port. The names of the men on board are Captain Christie, George Smith, George Thomson, James Davidson and Wm. Hudson.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

17/01/1894:
Deaths - drowned at sea on or about 18th November, Captain John Christie of the brig PLOUGHMAN, aged 38, deeply regretted.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

Note: After a Board of Trade survey in 1893 the tonnage was altered to 161 tons.
part new deck 1873.