PARAGON

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Shipownervessel built for Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1821 - 1962)

Date1842

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD (OAK)

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 100 3/12' x breadth 21 1/12' x depth 12'
gross tonnage 153 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000492

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: Destroyed by fire in Plymouth Sound while bound for London on 21 February 1862.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged with clipper hull, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, female figurehead.

Owners:
1842: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Thompson Jnr, Robert Gatto and William Duthie, merchants in Aberdeen. Others, William Reid, Alexander Brown, Thomas Blackie, also merchants in Aberdeen, trustees of the property in the vessels owned by the Aberdeen Steam Navigation Co. of Aberdeen - 64 shares.
Sold to William Lawson (of Whitstable) Faversham in May 1853.
19/07/1853: Registration cancelled, now registered in Faversham, England.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Register (Aberdeen City Archives))
1856: Livingston, registered at Whitsable (Lloyd's)
1861: Camburn & Co

Masters:
1844-51: Master Linklater (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)
1852: Master Howling (PO)
1853: Master Allan (PO)
1856-59: Master Livingston (Lloyd's)
1861: Master J. Camburn

Voyages (from Lloyd's, first entry 1956):
1856: Harwich
1857-58: London coaster
1859: Hartlepool coaster
1861: Sheilds coaster

General History:
01/03/1862:
PLYMOUTH. SHIP ON FIRE.—The Schooner PARAGON, of Whitstable, chartered by the Government for conveying 1,400 bags of bread from the victualling yard to Deptford. took fire on Friday evening when on the point of sailing. She was beached at Cremyll, where she burnt to the waters edge. 300 bags of bread were saved.
(Southern Times and Dorset County Herald)

29/03/1862:
T. HAINSSELIN WILL SELL BY AUCTION On TUESDAY, April 1st, 1832, at Winlo's Wharf, Richmond Walk, Devon port, the MATERIALS OF THE SCHOONER PARAGON. Comprising about 5,000 of first-rate 3-inch Oak and Elm Plank, in 30 and 40 feet lengths; feet half balk Plank, 5,000 feet footocks and ribs, oak keelson, elm bowsprit, figure head, several hundred-weight rope rigging, patent windlass, by Tizzick and Dobinson; pair of iron pumps, mast clamp winch, mast and bowsprint cap, several tons bolt iron 1/2 inch to 2 1/2 inch, lot of scrap iron, chain* cables and anchor, about hulf-a-ton of copper, brass, muntz metal, lead, quantity of fire-wrod, &c. Three chests of good Black Tea in bond, two Casks of Raisins, &c. Sale to commence Eleven o'clock. Auction and House Agency Office, 1. St Aubyn-street, Devonport, March 25th, 1862.
(Western Daily Mercury)

Note: According to Duthie builder's list, the PARAGON was the first clipper to be built of oak at Aberdeen.