VALLISNERIA

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1849

Object NameBARQUE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 111'6" x breadth 20'3" x depth 13'7"
gross tonnage 243 2243/3500 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000509

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.
Official number: 773

Fate: wrecked at Newcombe Sands, Lowestoft, 17/11/1867.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Barque rigged, sheathed with yellow metal, 3 masts, 1 ½ poop decks
standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries or figure head.

Owners:
25/06/1849: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Nicol, merchant, 36 shares; Wm Nicol, shipmaster, 8 shares; George Nicol, brewer 4 shares (all of Aberdeen)
Other owners: David Macallan, merchant, 8 shares; George Knowles, builder, 8 shares (both of Aberdeen)
29/06/1853: Offered for sale due to death of principal owner.
20/07/1853: Various in Aberdeen transferred all 64 shares to Robert Thomson & Harrison Watson, London, T/A R Thomson & Co, Registered at London 24 August 1853
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1856: Barry & Co, London
1861: Walker & Co, Whitby
30/11/1867: Hull sold for £65 and coals for £19.

Masters:
1849-53: Master William Nicol
1856-59: Master Fowler
1861-67: Master G. Walker

Voyages (Lloyd's):
1849-59: London - Cape of Good Hope
1861-62: London
1863: Stockton - Mediterranean
1865-67: Sunderland - Whitby

General History:
21/07/1849: Sailed from the Tyne for the Cape of Good Hope.
24/08/1853: Registered at London
03/1859: Loading at London for New Zealand. Shaw, Savill agents.
10/1859: At Lyttlelton, New Zealand.
07/11/1867: Sailed from Sunderland with 309 tons of large coals value £144.

04/05/1853:
Clipper barques for peremptory sale at Lloyd's Captain's Room, London, 11/5/1853. [...] fast sailing clipper barque VALLISNERIA, of Aberdeen, 244 tons register, sheathed with yellow metal and now daily expected to arrive from the Cape [of Good Hope] [...] disposed of solely on account of decease of principal owner.
(Aberdeen Journal)

07/11/1856:
Off St. Alban's Head, barque VALLISNERIA, Fowler Master, from London for Port Beaufort
(Morning Chronicle)

19/11/1867:
Gale, Yarmouth [...] barque VALLISNERIA, Dunn, of Whitby, from Sunderland for Ostend with coals, struck upon the Newcombe Sands, came off and was in the act of being assisted for the harbour by the steam tug, when she would not veer and the tow rope breaking, she was driven ashore on the beach. Crew were saved and cared for at the sailors' home.
(Bury & Norwich Post)

Note: VALLISNERIA - A fish of rapid movement.
Capable of carrying upwards of 400 tons deadweight.

See also: History (CS): - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=56734&vessel=VALLISNERIA