ROBERT HENDERSON
Date1857
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 163' x breadth 28 3/6' x depth 17 3/12'
tonnage 552 tons
tonnage 552 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000534
Keywords
Fate: Unknown, last mention in Lloyd's in 1882.
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper.
Owners:
1857: Henderson & Brothers
1871-72: Albion Shipping Co, registered at Glasgow
1872-74: Shaw, Savill & Co., registered at London
1876-77: J. Rogerson, registered at London
1878-81: J. Hay & Co., registered at London
Masters:
1871: Master McDonald
1872: Master A. Cuthbert
1873-81: Master J. Culbert
Voyages (Lloyd's):
1871: Clyde - N.Z.
1872-74: London - N.Z.
General History:
19/10/1857:
Handsome new Aberdeen clipper ROBERT HENDERSON has arrived in this port and her model has excited much admiration among nautical men. On passage to Clyde, she made over 14 knots on different occasions and passage Stromness - Clyde in 48 hours. Commanded and partly owned by Capt. W. J. Cobitt, well known in this port. About to go into graving dock to get bottom coppered, after which she will head for Dunedin, New Zealand, whence will proceed to China.
(Glasgow Herald)
07/07/1858:
Copied from Otago colonist re. clipper ROBERT HENDERSON, of Glasgow, one of P. Henderson & Co.'s line of vessels from Clyde to Otago - "the fine new ship ROBERT HENDERSON, Capt. Cubitt, with immigrants from the Clyde, arrived Port Chalmers [South Island, N.Z.] 9 Feb. after one of the quickest passages on record, having made it in 79 days land to land. Departed 16 Nov. and got N.E. trades 82N - 8N, S.E. trades 4S - 29S, calms and variable winds intervening. Passage provided qualities of ROBERT HENDERSON as good sailor and quiet steady-going ship fitted out with every convenience suggested by her spirited owners, has fully sustained reputation of Aberdeen building and commanded by Captain whose steadiness and perseverance as a seaman and urbanity as a gentleman could not be surpassed.
(Aberdeen Journal).
03/03/1859:
New York, 18 Feb. - ship ROBERT HENDERSON, Foochow for New York, before reported ashore below Mingem Pass, got off previous to 28 Nov. without apparent damage and proceeded.
(Glasgow Herald)
30/04/1860:
At Glasgow for Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. - the fine Aberdeen built clipper ship ROBERT HENDERSON will be despatched 1 June. Vessel is well known in the trade, having made the quickest passage on record to New Zealand and being specially fitted up for carrying passengers, all classes will find her a most eligible opportunity. Patrick Henderson & Co.
(Glasgow Herald)
19/05/1860:
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
'This fine Aberdeen-built clipper ship, Robert Henderson. This vessel is well known in the trade having made the quickest passage on record to New Zealand and being specially fitted up for carrying passengers.'
(Aberdeen Herald)
05/06/1861:
Otago, N.Z. - assisted passages will be granted to a limited no. of shepherds, ploughmen, labourers, carpenters, masons and female domestic servants. Celebrated 1st class clipper ship ROBERT HENDERSON will sail Glasgow - Otago direct 10 July.
(Caledonian Mercury)
11/06/1862:
Emigration to New Zealand from Clyde - clipper ship ROBERT HENDERSON of Patrick Henderson & Co.'s line of packets, left Glasgow yesterday with full complement of passengers (264) for N.Z.
(Glasgow Herald)
26/06/1865:
Falmouth, 25 June, ROBERT HENDERSON passed up Channel bound for London with 6000oz. gold, 17 passengers and cargo of wool.
(Glasgow Herald)
15/01/1866:
Arrived Otago 7 Nov., ROBERT HENDERSON after fast run of 87 days port to port, maintains celebrity of this favourite vessel for rapidity and regularity of her passages, now comprising 5 runs to Otago in 79, 93, 84, 97 and 87 days, 2 to the South End in 80 and 89 days. No deaths and 1 birth aboard.
(Glasgow Herald)
03/09/1870:
P. Henderson & Co. - ROBERT HENDERSON to sail 9 Sept. Glasgow - Otago under contract with Provincial Govt. - info from Emigration Office, Edinburgh.
(Glasgow Herald).
Listed in Lloyd's Register of Shipping until 1881, registered in London to J. Hays.
1841
