SWEET HOME

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateAugust 1839

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD; Oak, Larch, Beech, and Elm

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 76'6" x breadth 20'6" x depth 14'0"
gross tonnage 185 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000473

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: unknown, last in Post Office Aberdeen Directory 1849-50 (p.44).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, woman's bust figurehead.

Owners:
1839: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Cruickshank, shipowner, 20 shares; Alexander Hector, salmon fisher, 8 shares; Hugh Longmuir, shipmaster, 16 shares.
Other shareholders: John Longmuir, shipmaster, 16 shares; Andrew Anderson, painter, 4 shares, all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping, Aberdeen City Archives)
1846: Owner, Allan & Co (Lloyd's)
1849: Hogarth & Co. (Post Office Aberdeen Directory, p.44)

Masters:
1840-45: Master Longmuir
1846-48: Master G. Collie

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1840-42: Leith - Rio Grande (Southern Brazil)
1843: Liverpool - Lisbon
1844-45: Aberdeen - Rio Grande
1846: Aberdeen - Malaga
1847-48: Aberdeen

General History:
04/07/1842:
Brig SWEET HOME, of Aberdeen, from Liverpool, arrived Rio Grande [Brazil] at beginning of March, reporting having in Lat. 31.3S, Long. 49.47W, nearly 70 miles off Brazilian Coast, struck a shoal. The wind, being north east by east and smooth water, enabled her to clear the shoal immediately. The reef or shoal is not laid down in any chart and is in the immediate track of vesels bound to that port.
(Morning Post)

23/10/1844:
TO BE SOLD. To be sold, by Public Roup, on Thursday first, the 24th day of October current, at 6 o’clock, p m., within the Writing Rooms of Yeats & Flockheart. Advocates, 84, King Street, Aberdeen. THE fine A1 Coppered Brig, “SWEET HOME” of Aberdeen, of the registered measure 184 75/94 Tons, with her whole Rigging, Tackle, and Stores, as she presently lies in this Harbour. For particulars apply to Messrs Yeats & Flockhart, with whom any claims due on the Vessel are requested to be Immediately lodged for settlement. King Street, Aberdeen, 18th Oct. 1844.
(Aberdeen Journal)

03/11/1847
Report of the UNIQUE at Plymouth: - Spoke with the SWEET HOME of Aberdeen from Troon for Constantinople, out 14 days, in lat 41N., long. 10 40W.
(Shipping and Mercantile Gazette)