MARQUIS OF HUNTLY

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateSeptember 1817

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 49' 11" x breadth 16' 5" x depth 9'6"
registered tonnage 54 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000393

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: wrecked on Aberdeen beach, 27 May 1835.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1819-24: Aberdeen New Shipping Co. (Lloyd's underwriters)
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners:
Aberdeen Leith & Clyde Shipping Company 64/64, Trustees: Alex Brown, John Catto, and Robert Catto. Then James Blaikie, Alex. Mackie jnr. and John Dickie. (1825?)
25/08/1828: 40 shares sold to William Duthie and 24 shares sold to James Mackie
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
(1824-30 in Lloyd's underwriters as "Blake & Co." presumably a reference to James Blaikie)

Masters:
1819-23: Master Davidson
1823-30: Master George Norrie

Voyages:
1820-23: Leith - Aberdeen

General History:
02/01/1833:
Shipping For Sale -
To be sold by public roup on Friday the 4th Jan. next, at 2 o'clock, p.m. within the Lemon Tree Tavern the following shares of shipping viz :-
[...]
1-16th of the SMACK MARQUIS OF HUNTLY
(Aberdeen Journal)

02/03/1835:
Aberdeen February 28 - [...] During the gale the smack MARQUIS OF HUNTLY, Fletcher, of Aberdeen, bound to Dundee, with a general cargo, split her jib in attempting to take the harbour, and was afterwards driven on the sands about a mile north of the pier. The cargo, which was inconsiderable, has been landed, and it is expected the vessel will not be got off. Crew and passengers saved. This vessel, with a twin smack of the like tonnage, called the MARCHIONESS OF HUNTLY, was built here at the same time for the Leith trade, and it is remarkable that both vessels have been lost in the course of this month, the MARCHIONESS having been totally wrecked at the mouth of the river Spey in the violent gale of the 6th inst. and the MARQUIS OF HUNTLY now become a wreck on this beach in the gale of the 22d.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))