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STRANGER
STRANGER
STRANGER

STRANGER

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateDecember 1816
Object NameBRIGANTINE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 61 9/12' x breadth 18 11/12' x depth 9 3/6'
registered tonnage 89 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000389
About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: Sank in 1824 after striking rocks one mile north of Stonehaven.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, single deck

Owners:
1816: John Brodie, George Black and 10 others. (Builder's List in Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1818: Owner Clark & Co.

Masters:
1818-22: Master J. Brodie.
1822-23: Master A. Brodie
1823-24: Master Wood

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1818: London - Aberdeen
1818-20: London - Tenerife
1821: London - Hamburg
1821: London - Lisbon
1822: London - Naples
1823: Greenock - Naples
1824: London coaster

General History:
This was the first vessel built by William Duthie, believed to have been built in yard space rented from Hall's.

28/04/1824:
Brig STRANGER, Soller master, of Aberdeen, went ashore at Garron Point about one mile north of Stonehaven. She had missed stays in tacking about and, drifting upon the rocks, received such an injury as to fill immediately is now sunk by the rock in such a depth of water that mainmast is scarcely visible at high tide. Topmast and some of the sails, yards and rigging have been saved.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Notes:
1819: Described as snow rigged in Lloyd's
The below information is listed in Lloyd's Register after the date of sinking because registration continued until the owners of the vessel reported otherwise, which they often failed to do!
1824-30: Master Wood; London Coaster

MOUNTAINEER
Alexander HALL & Co.
1821
ALEXANDRINA
John Smith & Co.
April 1864
sepia toned photograph of clipper 'rifleman'
DUTHIE
February 1860
HELEN
1820
SIR R. BARCLAY
September 1824
JULIA
Alexander HALL & Co.
1852
STRATHNAVER
DUTHIE
August 1865
CHRYSOLITE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1851
OLIVE
1817
HIND
Unknown
22 February 1804
JANE
Nicol Reid & Co.
June 1817
ACTIVE
1801
CHILDE HAROLD
Alexander HALL & Co.
1828
ACASTA
Alexander HALL & Co.
October 1845
NYMPH
1811
BAY OF NAPLES
Alexander HALL & Co.
September 1875
ALFRED
1804
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1891
Alexander HALL & Co.
January 1870