AGNES

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

Date1818

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 72.8' x breadth 21.6' x depth 13.2'
gross tonnage 144 tons (Lloyd's 141 tons)

Object numberABDSHIP000911

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 26

Fate: Sunk in collision with UNION in the mid Atlantic, 24 April 1821.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged.

Owner:
1818: Registered at Aberdeen. as no: 31 in 1818, for owner A. Fraser & Co.
Registry closed when vessel lost in 1821.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Master:
1819-21: Master Barclay

Voyages (Lloyd's underwriters):
1820-21: London (but see newspapers below)

General History:
16/12/1819:
Torbay, 11 December - Brig AGNES, Capt. Robert Barclay, sailed for Jamaica.
(Morning Post)

12/07/1821:
At about 1:30am on 24 April brig AGNES, Robert Barclay master, New Orleans - Greenock, collided with brig UNION, Capt. Henry in Lat. 48.24, Long 25.0. AGNES was carrying full cargo of cotton and received so much damage that she went down in a short time. Crew and passengers (14 in number) got into the long boat, but with loss of all they had save what was on their backs. Morning is said to have been very dark, vessels were on opposite tacks and neither party saw the other until it was too late. All agree not the smallest blame can attach to either. Captain Barclay will sail in about 10 or 12 days [from Quebec] in new brig ELEANOR, of which he has got command, for Greenock.
(Caledonian Mercury)

Note: Cost at construction £1,514, or £10 10/- per ton.