CATHERINE

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 87' 1 tenth x breadth 21' 6 tenths x depth 15'
gross tonnage 220 216/3500 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000471

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1873 (C230).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries, female bust figurehead, felt and copper sheathing.

Owners:
1839: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Henry Adamson, shipowner, 32 shares; Alexander Troup, corn merchant, Sclattie Mill, Aberdeenshire, 6 shares; Charles Brown, corn merchant, Sclattie Mill, Aberdeenshire, 6 shares.
Other shareholders: Donaldson Rose, Robert Spring, William Maitland, Alexander Forbes, Alexander Nicol, James Horn, George Thompson Jnr., James Buyers, George Cruikshank, trading under the firm of Aberdeen Rope & Sail Co., Aberdeen, 8 shares. James Munro, shoemaker, 4 shares; David Munro, shoemaker, 4 shares, Charles Neilson, builder, 4 shares.
Owners (date unclear): McKevor Aberdeen. Other owners included Donaldson Rose in association with others in the firm of Aberdeen Rope & Sail Co 8 shares. In May 1846 Donaldson Rose & others dissolved the said firm and transferred the shares to new partners in a firm of the same name.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1852-53: Black & Co., Shields, now registered at Shields (Lloyd's)
1856-73: C. Morgan, registered at Sunderland

Masters:
1839-44: Master R. Granger
1845-51: Master Thomson
1852-55: Master L. Bruce
1856: R. Master Bain
1857-64: Master Scott
1865-68: Master Dyer
1869-73: Master Belsham

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1839-41: Aberdeen - Cuba
1843-44: Swansea - Cuba
1845-46: Liverpool - Valparaiso
1847: Liverpool - Bahia
1848-51: Cork
1852-56: Shields - Mediterranean
1857-58: Sunderland - Hamburg
1864-68: Sunderland coaster
1869-73: Sunderland - the Baltic

General History:
27/11/1872:
NARROW ESCAPE OF A SUNDERLAND BRIG. The brig CATHERINE, Belsham, of Sunderland, Which arrived in the Tyne on the 19th inst., from Gothenburg, had been struck by two [meter? unclear] seas Nov. 16, which stove her skylight, letting water into the cabin, and washed away the greater part of her deckload, the remainder being afterwards thrown overboard.
(Shields Daily Gazette)

Notes: 1848 and 1864, Some Repairs