JANE PIRIE

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Shipownervessel built for Andrew Anderson (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date1847

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 124' x breadth 24' x depth 17'3"
tonnage: 398 ton (old measurement); 427 tons (new measurement)

Object numberABDSHIP000503

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: Rammed and sunk off Gibraltar, 28 March 1865.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, one and a half poop decks, 3 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, woman's figurehead.

Owners:
1847: Registered Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Andrew Anderson, painter, 12 shares; James Booth, shipmaster, 8 shares; James Williamson, merchant, 4 shares.
Other shareholders; James Shanks, contractor, 8 shares; James Booth, surgeon, 8 shares; David Munro, shoemaker, 8 shares; James Munro, shoemaker, 8 shares; William Walker, shipowner, 4 shares; William Spark, shipowner, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1849: W. Booth (Lloyd's)
1858: Williamson
1861-65: Paul & Co, now registered at Shields.

Masters:
1848-51: Master J. Booth
1852-53: Master W. Adam
1854-58: Master G. Troupe
1859: Master A. Donald
1861-62: Master J. Knox
1863-65: Master J. Hall

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1848: Aberdeen - Calcutta
1851-53: London - Calcutta
1854: London - Valparaiso
1855-58: London
1859: Swansea - South America
1861: Shields - the Mediterranean
1862: Shields - Cadiz
1863: Shields - the Mediterranean
1864-65: Shields - the Black Sea

General History:
31/03/1865:
Gibraltar, 28 March - barque JANE PIRIE, Hall, of and from North Shields for Batoum with coals, has been run into and sunk by Swedish barque, BALDER, crew saved.
(Newcastle Courant)

Note: Despite its apparently fatal collision JANE PIRIE remains in Lloyds until 1870.