CONCORD
Shipbuildervessel built by
DUTHIE
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date8 March 1838
Object NameHERMAPHRODITE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
DimensionsLength: 75.1'
Breadth: 21.3'
Depth: 12.825'
Gross Tonnage: 119.99
Breadth: 21.3'
Depth: 12.825'
Gross Tonnage: 119.99
Object numberABDSHIP000464
Keywords
Fate: unknown
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Hermaphrodite rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries, male bust figurehead added 12 December 1856
Owners:
1838: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Nathaniel Farquhar, advocate, George Thompson Jnr., merchant, John Innes, land surveyor, all Aberdeen.
Other shareholders: John Milne, farmer, Fornet, Skene, William Donald Jnr., merchants, all trustees of the property in vessels owned by the Aberdeen Commercial Company of Aberdeen, 64 shares.
1868: The CONCORD was re-registered in 1868 due to the deaths of four of the trustees. Nathaniel Farquhar, 49 Victoria Street, Aberdeen, died at Harrogate, 19 July 1849. William Donald Jnr., of 10 Chapel Street, Aberdeen, died 24 January 1843. The other trustee, George Thompson Jnr., Aberdeen, survives. (Letter date 22 July 1868)
05/08/1868: New joint owners of 64 shares: George Thompson Junior, shipowner, Alexander Jopp, advocate, and Patrick Henderson Chalmers, advocate, all of Aberdeen.
15/02/1869: Owners sell all 64 shares to Aberdeen Commercial Company, Aberdeen.
12/05/1874: Aberdeen Commercial Company sells 32 shares to Robert Fell, shipbroker, Newcastle and 32 shares to Joseph Gill, master mariner, North Shields.
27/10/1874: Robert Fell sells 32 shares to Joseph Gill, master mariner, North Shields.
02/11/1874: Registry transferred to Goole.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping, Aberdeen City Archives)
Masters:
08/03/1838: Master John Symers
04/10/1839: Master John Phimister
18/12/1845: Master Peter Cadenhead
02/12/1853: Master James Duncan
1860-75: Master Falconer (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
Note: not in Lloyd's
Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.
15 February 1858
1846
1868
