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HELEN

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1821

Object NameSLOOP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsgross tonnage 67 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000413

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: Wrecked at Macduff, 13 December 1839.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Sloop rigged, single deck.

Owners:
1821-39: Captain & Co., registered at Banff (George, William & Henry Wilson and James Paterson, Macduff. Source: www.clydeships.co.uk)

Masters:
1821-31: Master G. Wilson
1831: Master Robinson
1832-39: Master G. Wilson

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1822-24: Yarmouth - Aberdeen
1825-27: London coaster
1828: Lynn coaster
1829: London coaster
1830-31: Workington coaster
1832: Cork coaster
1833: Leith coaster
1836-39: Aberdeen - Sunderland

General History:
17/12/1839:
BANFF Dec. 13: The sloop HELEN, Watson, of McDuff [sic], with a pilot on board, and in ballast, in coming round from Gardenstown (seven miles to eastward) there being at the time a heavy swell and little wind, struck on a reef of rocks on making the harbour of McDuff this evening and is become a total wreck; The crew saved, with the of one man, John Main a native of the port, who has left a wife and three children.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)

Notes:
1835: Part new Wales & some repairs