AGNES

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1856

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 104.2' x breadth 22.6' x depth 13.7'
gross tonnage 199 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000524

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Duthie & Co.

Fate: missing December 1881.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck and a break, 2 masts, square stern, carvel built, no galleries, clipper bow, female figurehead.

Owners:
06/1856: Registered at Stonehaven for subscribing owner;
John Forbes, shipowner, Stonehaven.
16/06/58: John Forbes dies, Margaret Thomson or Forbes, Stonehaven, widow, appointed sole executor.
28/09/58: Margaret Forbes sells. James Forbes, Stonehaven, tailor and draper, Hugh Forbes, Stonehaven, tailor and draper, George Forbes, Edinburgh, tailor and clothier, and Alexander Forbes, Edinburgh, writer, joint owners, 9 shares; William Mackie Senior, merchant, 15 shares; John Falconer, Stonehaven, writer, 6 shares; Andrew Milne, Stonehaven, shipmaster, 4 shares; Hugh Forbes, Stonehaven, tailor & draper, 4 shares; James Forbes, Stonehaven, tailor & draper, 4 shares; William Caird, Stonehaven, tailor, 2 shares; Hugh Ramsey, Stonehaven, draper, 2 shares; William Mackie Junior, Stonehaven, accountant, 2 shares; James Anderson, Stonehaven, meal dealer, 1 share; Alexander William Torry, Stonehaven, watchmaker, 1 share; James Torry, Stonehaven, teacher, 1 share; Rose Young Forbes or Warden, Stonehaven, widow of the late Robert Warden, Custom House officer, 1 share; George Thomson, Temple Bank, Auchenblae, contractor, 2 shares; Robert Duthie, Aberdeen, shipowner, 4 shares; David MacDonald, 8 South Constitution Street, Aberdeen agent, 2 shares; Robert Brown, Aberdeen, timber merchant, 2 shares. Alexander Forbes, Edinburgh, writer, 1 shares.
01/10/58: Robert Duthie sells 4 shares to Andrew Milne, Stonehaven, shipmaster.
20/07/60: James Forbes sells 2 shares to James Crockatt, Stonehaven, writer.
21/07/61: William Mackie Junior dies intestate. William Mackie, Stonehaven, shipowner inherits shares.
12/05/62: James Anderson sells 1 share to Robert Torry, Stonehaven, flesher.
23/10/62: James Crockatt sells 2 shares to James Forbes, Stonehaven, tailor and draper.
13/06/69: This registry opened: James Greig Souter, Stonehaven, banker, 24 shares. Andrew Milne, Aberdeen, shipmaster, 40 shares.
05/11/77: James Greig mortgages 24 shares for £295.15/- with interest at 5% to: - John Duthie, Alexander Duthie and Robert Duthie, Aberdeen, shipbuilders.
09/02/78: Mortgage discharged.
23/02/78: Andrew Milne mortgages 40 shares for £514.7.6 with interest at 3% to: - John Duthie, Alexander Duthie and Robert Duthie, Aberdeen, shipbuilders.
05/11/79: Mortgage transferred to James Grieg.
16/12/80: 64 shares sold to James Archibald, Treasurer of the Shipmasters Society of Aberdeen.
12/01/82: Registry cancelled, vessel missing for last five weeks.
(Source: Aberdeen Shipping Register (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1857-59: Master A. Milne
1861-63: Master A. Maurice
1865-77: Master A. Milne
1877-80: Master A. Edwards
1880-81: Master W. Ainslie

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1857: Aberdeen - Archangel (Russia)
1858-59: London
1861-63: Newcastle - New York
1865-69: Aberdeen - Baltic
1869-70: Aberdeen - Huelva (Spain)
1871: Aberdeen - Mediterranean
1872: Aberdeen - France
1873: Aberdeen - Spain

General History:
11/06/1856:
Launch - On Wednesday afternoon, there was launched from the building yard of Messrs Duthie, Footdee, a handsome clipper brig the 'AGNES' of 238 tons builder's measurement. Dimensions; length of keel 101 and a half feet, breadth of beam 22 feet 7 inches, depth of hold 10 and a half feet. The AGNES has been built for Mr Forbes, and others, of Stonehaven.
(Aberdeen Journal)

25/12/1880:
The brig AGNES, of Stonehaven, presently lying at Aberdeen, has been sold to Mr J. Archibald, shipowner, Aberdeen for £325. Many years ago Stonehaven could boast of fleet of 20 to 30 ships, but there are only two now hailing from the port.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal )

Note: Initially in Lloyd's as AGNESS, Lloyd's reverts to AGNES after 1858.