OCEAN QUEEN

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

DateJune 1846

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 127.0' x breadth 23.3' x depth 16.7'
gross tonnage 349 2/3 NM (409 tons OM) (404 tons according to Lloyd's)

Object numberABDSHIP000500

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: lost in Indonesia, 9 December 1848.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged with clipper hull, one deck and a poop deck, 3 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, caravel built, no galleries, a womans figurehead.

Owners:
1846: Registered in Aberdeen for subscribing owners: Alexander Duthie, shipbuilder, 38 shares; George Murray, builder, 8 shares; John Cargill, shipmaster, 6 shares.
Other shareholders; Alexander Murray, merchant, Whitehills, Banffshire, 12 shares.
05/12/1850: Registration cancelled, ship lost.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1846: Master James Sutherland

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1847: Aberdeen
1848: London - Singapore

General History:
28/02/1849:
Batavia, December 28—The OCEAN QUEEN, Sutherland, of Aberdeen, from Singapore to London, struck on a coral reef off the Island of Linga, 9th inst., and sunk; crew and passengers saved.
(Aberdeen Journal)

Note: an illustration of the clipper barque "OCEAN QUEEN" painted by J. Heard. can be found in David R. MacGregor (1973) "Fast Sailing Ships 1775-1875 - Their Design and Construction" (Nautical Publishing Company), p. 130)
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