SWIFT

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1822

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 56'6" x breadth 18'3"
gross tonnage 78 45/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000415

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: caught fire off Todhead, Catterline, Kincardinshire, late October 1840.

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

Owners:
1822: Registered at Aberdeen.
20/05/1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
Andrew Masson, shipmaster, Stonehaven, 16 shares.
Other shareholders (1825);
James Christie, overseer, Arbuthnot, 16 shares; Alexander Alexander, cattle dealer, Drumyocher, parish of Arbuthnot, 16 shares; Alexander Coutts, farmer, Pithie, Inverbervie, 16 shares.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 16, 1822; no. 125, 1825)
Sold to Montrose in 1836 (Aberdeen register, but Lloyd's continues to show Masson of Stonehaven)

Masters:
1825-40: Master Andrew Masson

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1825-32: Leith - St. Davids
1834-40: Montrose coaster

General History:
07/11/1840:
The schooner SWIFT, Masson, of Montrose, with lime from Sunderland to Gourdon, was overtaken by the storm on Monday week, and driven about thirty miles off the Todhead, when, in consequence of a leak, she took fire fore and aft. The crew were in a dreadful plight, and glad to escape by their boat without saving a single article, to the ANN of Crombie Point, from Riga, which had hove to within sight, and having with difficulty got on board of that vessel, they left the SWIFT in a sinking state.
(Witness (Edinburgh))