HUGUENOT

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date11 June 1858

Object NameCLIPPER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 155 9/12' x breadth 28 3/12' x depth 18 1/12'
gross tonnage 472 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000535

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Duthie Junior, Inches, Aberdeen.
Official Number: 21467

Fate: Wrecked after being stranded at Merlimont near Boulogne, 30 January 1862.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: ship rigged, 1 deck, 3 masts, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, shield figurehead.

Owners:
17/07/1858: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Thomson Rennie, ship agent, 40 shares; David Wyllie, banker, 8 shares; James Wyllie, bookseller, 8 shares; Robert Cruikshank, merchant, 4 shares; John Nisbet Forbes, master, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
24/07/1858 John Thomson Rennie, sells 4 shares to John Thom, Muchalls, salmon fisherman
29/02/1860: 2 shares for sale at £187.10/-, valuing vessel at 6,000.
30/01/1862: Vessel grounded near Boulogne and became a total wreck while on passage from Colombo for London with coffee.
21/10/1862: Registry closed.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives) Register 1 (CE87/11/10) folio 133.)

Master:
1859: Master J. Forbes

Voyages (Lloyd's)
1859-62: London - India

General History:
21/07/1858: Sailed from Aberdeen for London. (Aberdeen Register)

02/08/1858:
Late gales - upwards of a dozen vessels foundered in North Sea off Flamborough Head the GRACE, of Hartlepool, bound south, foundered during height of gale. Every bit of her canvas was blown to rags and, but for the courageous gallantry of the crew of the ship HUGUENOT, of Aberdeen, Captain Forbes, every soul on board of her would have perished. [Larn Shipwreck Index of British Isles - GRACE sprung a leak and foundered in wind NW force 10].
(Morning Chronicle)

22/02/1860:
To be exposed by public roup in office of Yeats & Spottiswood, Advocates, 48 King St., Aberdeen, on 6 March... 2 x 64ths of ship HUGUENOT at upset price £187.10.
(Aberdeen Journal)

31/01/1862: HUGUENOT was stranded at Merlemont, northwest France and became a constructive total loss, while on a voyage from Colombo to London with a cargo of coffee.

See also: History (CS): - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?official_number=&imo=&builder=2040&builder_eng=&year_built=1858&launch_after=&launch_before=&role=&propulsion=&category=&owner=&port=&flag=&disposal=&lost=&ref=53021&vessel=HUGUENOT
Wrecksite: - http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?239019