ALMA
Shipbuildervessel built by
DUTHIE
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1855
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 149.4' x breadth 26.3' x depth 17.5'
gross tonnage 555 tons
gross tonnage 555 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000532
Keywords
Fate: Condemned Algoa Bay, 18 July 1870.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 1-and-a-half poop decks, 3 masts, full male figurehead
Owners:
13/02/1855: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Andrew Anderson, shipowner, 8 shares; Thomas Ruxton, advocate, 8 shares; Alexander Pirie, spirit merchant, 8 ahares [all Aberdeen].
Other owners; James & David Munro, shoemakers, 4 shares each; David Ritchie, shipmaster, 4 shares; James Ritchie, shipowner, 2 shares; John Ferguson, advocate 4 shares; Peter Morrison, manager, Aberdeen Lime Co., 2 shares; James Nisbet, manager, Aberdeen & Newcastle S.N. Co. 2 shares; Elizabeth Collie, wife, 2 shares [all Aberdeen]; Eliza Mary Bailey, daughter of William Baillie Jr., merchant, Edinburgh, 4 shares; James Ruxton, farmer, Rothiemay, 2 shares; James Collie, farmer, Marykirk, 2 shares; James Walker, shipbroker, London, 8 shares.
Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives)
1861-65: Catto, Son, & Co. Aberdeen (Lloyd's)
1866-70: Aitken & Co., Aberdeen.
Masters:
1855-64: Master David Ritchie
1864-65: Master W. Conn
1866-70: Master C. Crawford
Voyages:
1856-57: Aberdeen - Mediterranean
1858-60: London
1863-64: London - Australia
1865: Aberdeen
1866-67: Aberdeen - Mauritius
1868-71: Liverpool - India
General History:
02/03/1855
SHIP ALMA. A large concourse of spectators assembled at the Wet Dock, on Friday morning, to witness the departure of this handsome vessel, and the largest ever built at this port [Montrose]. It is a matter for regret that so fine a ship should be sold to Aberdeen, and not have hailed from Montrose. We hope, however, that the ALMA is only the first of a series of clipper ships which Messrs. Duthie & Cochar will launch from their extensive premises, and that Montrose will soon rival Aberdeen, if it does not surpass the "good town" in the sailing qualities of its vessels.
(Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin review; and Forfar and Kincardineshire advertiser)
18/06/1856:
For sale by public roup at Yeates & Whyte, Advocates, 48 King St., Aberdeen on 20 June, two 64ths of ship ALMA of Aberdeen, 555 tons new measure, built at Montrose 1854, 8 years A1 in Lloyd's List, presently on a voyage from London to Mauritius. Upset price £240.
(Aberdeen Journal)
09/10/1861:
To be sold by public roup at Yeats & Flockhart, King St., Aberdeen on 15th October, eight 64ths fo fine ship ALMA, of Aberdeen, now on voyage to India and China, built 1855, 555 tons per register. She is in excellent repair and complete in her appurtenances.
(Aberdeen Journal)
Condemned Algoa Bay, 18 July 1870:
11/01/1871:
Aberdeen vessels lost in 1870 - ALMA, ship, 582 tons, 15 years old - put into Algoa Bay [Port Elizabeth] in a disabled state and was condemned.
(Aberdeen Journal)
Note: possibly the first ship built by William Duthie jr., albeit in Montrose rather than Aberdeen where he set up on the Inches in 1857.
1841
