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SUPERB

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1819

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 56' 4" x breadth 18' 6" x depth 9' 9"
gross tonnage 78 Tons

Object numberABDSHIP000406

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: Wrecked on Shipwash sand, Suffolk, 28 April 1829.

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

Owners:
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners in 1824;
David Fotheringham, merchant, 14 shares; Norman Yule, clerk, 4 shares; Robert Mathison, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other owners in 1824; Alexander Forbes, 12 shares; Robert Ragg, 4 shares; George Pirie, 4 shares; John Norrie, 2 shares; all Aberdeen merchants. James Mair, waiter, 4 shares; David Husband, cooper, 4 shares; Peter Mathieson, ship carpenter, 4 shares; William Waddel, clothier, 2 shares; John Fotheringham, flax dresser, 2 shares; all Aberdeen. James Farquhar, merchant, Fraserbugh, 4 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1827-29: R. Ragg

Masters:
1822-25: Master R. Matheson
1826: Master D. Smith
1826-28: Master R. Paton

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1822-23: London coaster
1824: Hull coaster
1825: Yarmouth coaster
1826: Dublin coaster
1827-28: London coaster

09/05/1829:
Harwich. —The late gales have, it is feared, produced serious and distressing events sea.—-On the 28th about 10 p.m., the smack SUPERB, Capt, Paton, of and from Aberdeen for London, laden with stone, went ashore on the Shipwash, and shortly after sunk. The crew, five in number, tied to the rigging, where they clung for life [for] 44 hours, during which dreadful period two of them fell exhausted into the sea. The master and two men having lashed themselves, and seeing helping hand stretched out to save, waited, in the agony of despair, the expected moment that would hurl their bodies the deep. Insensibility had seized them, when the fishing smack PAUL PRY, of London, espied them, and immediately despatched a boat to rescue them from watery grave; but the boat, unfortunately, was stove alongside the wreck, and these brave fellows were also obliged to flee to the rigging of the wreck; however, the smack LIVELY, of Ipswich, shortly after took the whole from the wreck, and the sufferers were safely landed here the 1st instant. Capt. Paton was quite insensible when landed, hut we are happy find he is now recovering.
(Suffolk Chronicle)

08/06/1829:
Messrs Billingsley and Co. agents for Lloyd’s, at Harwich, have procured from the shipwreck Institution, a reward of L.26 [£] for the men who were instrumental in preserving the lives of three of the crew of the SUPERB of Aberdeen, and a silver medal has been voted to each of the masters of the smacks, for their persevering conduct on the occasion of the loss of that vessel.
(Edinburgh Evening Courant)

Note: Sloop rig comes from the Aberdeen register, Lloyd's underwriters has smack.