UNION GROVE

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateJune 1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 77'1" x breadth 20'7" x depth 13'5"
tonnage 174 tons NM (182 according to Lloyd's 1840)

Object numberABDSHIP000472

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: wrecked Saltholmen, Gothenburg, 25 October 1848.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, male bust figurehead.

Owners:
1839: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners; John Dinnson, shipmaster, 32 shares; James Alexander, steel surgeon, 4 shares. Other shareholders: William Innes, merchant, 24 shares; James Elliot, shipmaster, 4 shares, all Aberdeen.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1840-48: Master John Dinnson (Lloyd's usually spells it Dennison)

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1840-41: Aberdeen - Riga
1843-44: Aberdeen - the Baltic
1845-47: Aberdeen
1847-48: Aberdeen - the Baltic

General History:
14/11/1848:
Frightful hurricane took place off Gothenburg, in Sweden, night of 25 October. The brig UNION GROVE, of Aberdeen, is totally lost at Fatholm. Crew saved.
(Liverpool Mercury)

The Cork Examiner identifies the ship instead as from Hull, but the place of the wreck is better identifiable, Saltholmen being a small peninsula on the south side of the estuary of the Göta river:
13/11/1848:
The UNION GROVE, Hendrey, from Hull, was wrecked at Saltholmen —crew saved.
(Cork Examiner)
This discrepency might cast doubt that this is the right ship, but UNION GROVE ceases to appear in either Lloyd's or the Post Office Aberdeen Directory after this date.