SIROCCO

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1867

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 125' x breadth 24' x depth 12'
tonnage 233 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000558

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie, Sons & Co.
Official Number: 56605

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1882 (S685).

Propultion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck and a break, 3 masts, round stern, carvel built, no galleries, demi female figurehead.

Owners:
10/05/1867: Registered at Aberdeen for owner;
John Birnie Adam, Aberdeen
10/12/1868: 8 shares to Thomas Alexander William Andrew Youngson, advocate, Aberdeen.
24/02/1873: 8 shares to Agnes Connon or Smith, wife of David Smith, stockbroker, Aberdeen.
12/03/1873: 16 shares to Thomas Morrice, Aberdeen, shipwright [J. B. Adam 32 shares].
30/10/1876: Morrice sold 16 shares to J. B. Adam, Youngson sold 8 shares to Thomas Adam jnr.
21/12/1876: 64 shares to George McBain, master mariner, Aberdeen; empowering McBain to sell the ship at Port Louis, Mauritius or any other port outside the UK within 24 months for a sum not less than £3000 (no sale made).
03/10/1878: sold to Thomas Stubbs Brown, 147 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1867-73: Master Mitchell
1872-76: Master A. Buyers
1875: Master James Donald of Aberdeen. (Aberdeen Register)
1878: Master J. Sutherland
1879-82: Master T. S. Brown

Destined Voyage
1867-69: Aberdeen - Baltic
1870-71: London - Spain
1872-73: London - Algiers

General History:
11/07/1877:
SIROCCO, schooner, of Aberdeen, McBain, at Martinique from Bombay about 16 June.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

15/03/1878:
For private sale, the handsome 3 masted clipped schooner SIROCCO, 233 tons per register. In 1878 she was thoroughly overhauled and resheathed with yellow metal. Carries 800-850 tons deadweight in very light draught of water. Shifts in the river without ballast, sails remarkably fast and is abundantly found in stores. Now lying in Upper Dock, Aberdeen. Particulars from Adam & Co., Regents Quay.
(Aberdeen Weekly Journal)

Once sold to Thomas Stubbs Brown the SIROCCO operated out of Sydney, sailing to various Pacific islands. The following is the last advertisment for a voyage found:
16/11/1881:
For TONGA and SAMOA. - The Clipper Schooner SIROCCO, T. S. Brown, Master, now loading at Alger's Wharf, will have prompt despatch.
E. VICKERY, Agent, 78 Pitt street.
(Sydney Morning Herald)