MARYS

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateDecember 1836

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 71.5' x breadth 19.2' x depth 12.85'
gross tonnage 131 2/3 NM (Lloyd's 133)

Object numberABDSHIP000457

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie & Co.
Official Number: 6816

Fate: Broken up around 27 March 1881.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: 1 deck, 2 masts, hermaphrodite rigged, square stern, carvel built, female figurehead which was lost or removed in 1855.

Owners:
1836: Registered at Aberdeen by owners;
William Fletcher, shipmaster, 24 shares; William Talbot and George Maitland, ship chandlers, 16 shares; James Mackenzie, baker, 8 shares; George Knowles, flesher, 8 shares; Charles Anderson, shipmaster, 8 shares; all Aberdeen.
27/03/1884: Certificate cancelled as vessel was to be broken up.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1838-50: Owner, Cruickshank (Lloyd's)
1852-63: Owner, William Talbot & Co (Post Office Aberdeen Directory (PO))
1868-79: Owner, G. Sinclair (PO)
1880: Owner, Wilcher (PO)

Masters:
1838-41: Master C. Esson
1842-63: Master W. Fletcher
1868: Master Anderson (PO)
1869: Master Dewar (PO)
1870: Master Watt (PO)
1871: Master Palmer (PO)
1872 Master Petrie (PO)
1873-74: Master Nicholson (PO)
1876-78: Master Murray (PO)
1879: Master MacKay (PO)
1880: Master Wilcher (PO)

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1838-39: London - Aberdeen.
1840-41: London - Riga.
1842: Aberdeen - Riga
1842-45: Aberdeen - London.

09/04/1851:
to be sold by public group in Lemon Tree Tavern Aberdeen, 17 April at upset price of £500 - schooner MARYS, as presently lying in harbour of Aberdeen. Vessel was built in Aberdeen 1836, is hermaphrodite rigged, and burthen 133 tons.
(Aberdeen Journal)

17/08/1866:
Aberdeen - on early Friday morning, as the vanguard steamer was leaving the harbour, she ran against a schooner, the MARYS, which was coming in to port. Both vessels lost their bowsprits and jib booms. But no further damage was done and vanguard proceeded on her voyage southward. It is said accident was caused by pilot on board the MARYS causing the steersman to starboard instead of port the helm.
(Dundee Courier)