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DON

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1814

Object NameSHIP

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 96 3/12' x breadth 28 5/6' x depth between decks 6.2'
gross tonnage 332 tons
Gross Tonnage: 332ton

Object numberABDSHIP000894

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 9

Fate: Lost in the Davis Strait, summer 1825.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Whaler, ship then barque rigged, 2 decks, 3 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Lumsden, Alexander Dalgarno, Robert Abercrombie, all Aberdeen merchants. George Yeats, advocate, Geroge McInnes, shipowner, Old Aberdeen. George Mair, shipowner, Dudwick, Ellon, all Trustees of the Dee Whale Fishing Co. of Aberdeen.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
[1824 is when the Aberdeen Register begins, but it is evident from the newspaper entry below that it had been owned by the Dee Whale Fishing Co. since it was built in 1814]

Masters:
1819-25: Master A. Craig (Lloyd's underwriters)
1824: Master James Brown (Aberdeen Register)

Voyages:
1819-25: Leith to Greenland

10/08/1814:
To be sold by public auction at Dee Whale Fishing Co.'s Don Yard, Footdee - a quantity of beef, pork, ship bread, oatmeal, flour, barley and pease and other items and stores belonging to the whale-fishing ship DON.
(Aberdeen Journal)

23/09/1823:
The BRUNSWICK, of Hull, has arrived off Aberdeen from the fishery in Baffin's Bay and she brings very favourable accounts of all the ships employed in this branch of British Commerce [...] Aberdeen ships ALEXANDER (8 whales), BON ACCORD a full ship, DON (5), YTHAN (10).
(Morning Chronicle)

14/10/1825:
Davis’s Straits Fishery
Peterhead 10th Oct. The ENTERPRIZE, Hogg, arrived this evening from Davis’s Straits, with 5 fish: left the Fishery 17 days ago, and the Master gives the following account from memory—-4 Ships lost, viz. LIVELY of Berwick; SUCCESS, Thomson, of Leith; ESTRIDGE, Deuckars, Dundee; and DON, Brown, of Aberdeen.
(Lloyd's List)

Notes: Cost at construction, £5146 (Builder's list, Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Ship rigged in Lloyd's, but barque rigged in the Aberdeen register.