HERO

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date11 January 1822

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 58'9" x breadth 18'7" x depth 10'2"
gross tonnage 83 14/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000416

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.

Fate: wrecked off Thurso, 25 April 1835.

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

Owner:
06/12/1825: Re-registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Aberdeen & Newcastle Shipping Company 64 shares -
Neil Smith, merchant; Andrew Oldman, merchant; Leslie Cruickshank, merchant, all trustees
plus William McKinnon, glazier; George Smith, merchant, both trustees.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) no. 120, 1825)
1833: J. Michin [sic] (presumably actually Michie)

Masters:
1825: Master John Taylor (Aberdeen Register)
1833-34: Master F. Miche (given as Michen in 1833)

Voyage:
1833: London coaster

General History:
02/05/1835:
Inverness, April 29 [...] Our correspondent at Thurso writes as follows " Last night (Sunday), for about three hours, was one of the most severe ever felt on this coast, and occasioned the total loss of three vessels a mile west of this place, and not 100 yards distant from each other, viz,[...] The smack HERO of Aberdeen, Forbes Michie master, from Newcastle with coals, and bound for Dublin, crew saved, and cargo partly.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))