UNION

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1819

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 60'7" x breadth 18'9" x depth 9'7"
gross tonnage 88 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000403

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1838 (U29).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, running bowsprit, square stern, no figurehead.

Owners:
1819: James Forrest & David Ross, registered at Stonehaven (Builder's list at Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1823: Captain & Co. (i.e. Cadenhead & Co. (Lloyd’s))
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Mackie jnr, blockmaker, 8 shares; James Williamson, flesher, 16 shares; Henry Ogg, brewer, 8 shares:
Other owners: James Aiken snr, merchant, 16 shares; Catherine Cattanach, widow of John Cattanach, once shipmaster, 16 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1828-32: Foreman & Co., registered at Yarmouth. (Lloyd's)
Masters:
1823: Master Cadenhead
1824-26: Master A. Barclay
1826-27: Master Andrew Baxter
1828: Master B. Thompson
1830-32: Master J. Utting
1832-35: Master R. Bond
1836-38: Master J. Bond

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1823: Liverpool - Cork
1824: Falmouth - London
1825-27: Liverpool - Ireland
1828-32: Yarmouth coaster

General History:
18/12/1822:
Schooner UNION, of this port, Cadenhead master, rode out a gale in Yarmouth Roads.
(Aberdeen Journal)

15/10/1825:
Schooner UNION, of Aberdeen, Baxter master, arrived Wick 7 Oct. after being put into longhope.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))

18/01/1826:
Schooner UNION, of Aberdeen, Baxter master, Wick - Bristol with herring, took shelter from a gale at Cromarty. Subsequently she became frozen up in 6 inches of ice on Caledonian Canal.
(Aberdeen Journal, also Caledonian Mercury, 30/01/1826)

13/07/1831:
Cholera morbus - on 3rd July UNION, schooner, arrived Cromarty, understood one of the crew died on board during the passage after an illness of 17 hour strongly suspected to be cholera. Vessel now performing quarantine.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Note: Tonnage given as 108 from 1832