CITY OF QUEBEC

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1856

Object NameCLIPPER

MediumWOOD: Oak and Tamarack (American Larch)

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength 142.7' x Breadth 28.2' x Depth 17.8'
Gross tonnage 527 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000533

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Cochar & Duthie, Montrose

Fate: lost on Red Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, 8 May 1871.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper

Owners:
1856-71: Donaldson Rose & Co., registered at Aberdeen

Masters:
1856-59: Master James Tulloch
1860-64: Master Cobban
1867-70: Master D. Thompson
1871: Master R. Pithie

Voyages:
1856-59: Montrose - North America
1860-63: Aberdeen - Callao, Peru
1864-66: Leith - Australia
1867: Leith - Valparaiso, Chile
1868-69: Shields - South America
1870: Cardiff - South America
1871: London - Quebec

General History:
06/02/1856:
New 1st class ship QUEBEC, Commander James Tulloch (formerly of the ST. LAWRENCE) will be despatched from Aberdeen to Quebec direct early April. She has been constructed by eminent builders to combine the greatest speed with every requirement essential to comfort and convenience. Having a full poop, she affords superior accommodation for cabin passengers and there is ample height between decks for intermediate and steerage passengers, who may rely on their comfort and safety having every attention from Capt. Tulloch, who has great experience in the trade.
(Aberdeen Journal)

23/04/1856:
New emigrant ship - fine new vessel CITY OF QUEBEC, built expressly as trader to this port, sailed on Friday with 174 passengers. She promises to be very fast and comfortable vessel.
(Aberdeen Journal)

25/06/1856:
CITY OF QUEBEC, having arrived at Quebec, all well, on 19th May, is expected to be on the berth in Aberdeen about middle of July.
(Aberdeen Journal)

16/07/1856:
Ship CITY OF QUEBEC arrived Aberdeen bay Sunday from Quebec with cargo of timber after pleasant passage of 4 weeks.
(Aberdeen Journal)

12/11/1856:
Report of ship CITY OF QUEBEC, Tulloch, at Aberdeen 9 Nov. - 23 days from Quebec, had fine weather coming down river and Gulf of St. Lawrence until off Cape Race, where vessel was detained 3 days by contrary winds. Afterwards experienced strong NW winds. Capt. Tulloch speaks highly of sailing qualities of his fine new ship.
(Aberdeen Journal)

17/04/1857:
Ship CITY OF QUEBEC sailed from Aberdeen Saturday last with 238 1st class and steerage passengers. Emigrants this spring mainly relatives going out to previous emigrants.
(Aberdeen Journal)

29/07/1857:
Rapid passage - ship CITY OF QUEBEC arrived Aberdeen from Quebec Thursday having made passage, after discharging pilot at Green Island, in 20 days.
(Aberdeen Journal)

17/09/1862:
[Apparently in St. Lawrence] 6th September, CITY OF QUEBEC bound up off Bell Island.
(Freeman's Journal)

22/04/1863:
Fine A1 Aberdeen-built clipper ship CITY OF QUEBEC, Robert Cobban Commander, to sail from Leith to Sydney, NSW, 30 May [Caledonian Mercury 18/06/1863 - to sail from Leith 20 June].
(Glasgow Herald)

12/05/1871:
LOSS OF ABERDEEN SHIP AND ALL HANDS. Yesterday forenoon telegram was received Aberdeen intimating that the barque CITY OF QUEBEC, Captain Pithie, which left London for Quebec about six weeks ago in ballast, had become total wreck on Red Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, on the night of the 8th instant, and that the Captain and thirteen of the crew had been drowned. The CITY OF QUEBEC was a vessel of 526 tons register, built at Montrose in 1856, and was owned Messrs Donaldson, Rose, and Co., timber merchants, Footdee; All the crew belonged to Aberdeen. The following are the names of those supposed to have been on board Captain Richard Pithie, leaves a widow and three of a family; James Watson, first mate, unmarried; W. T. Philip, second mate, unmarried. Able seamen, married—Alexander Lewis, no family; John Jamieson, family of three; Ritchie Sheriffs, no family; Timothy Connell, no family. Alex. Irvine, family of two. Unmarried seamen—Alex. Ledingham, George Allan, William Nicoll, James Pyper, George Innes One name has not been ascertained. Our Aberdeen reporter states that the news caused profound regret in the city, where the officers and men were well known. This untoward calamity, involving as does so great a loss of life, is one of the heaviest that has befallen Aberdeen shipping for many years.
(Dundee Courier)

Notes: Re-rigged as a barque c. 1870.