BUCHAN

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

Date1835

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 68'2" x breadth 19'9" x depth 11'
gross tonnage 116 14/94 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000957

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 71

Fate: unknown, not in Lloyd's register

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries, female bust figure head

Owners:
Builders records state ship sold to Peterhead & London New Shipping Co. The Shipping Register and Lloyd's show owner as Thomas Lawrence who was an original Subscribing owner with 1/64 share along with 28 other owners.
23/10/1835: Registered in Aberdeen
1836: Owned by Thomas Laurance Jnr, merchant, Peterhead, 1 share.
Other shareholders; William Sellar, 6 shares; Thomas Laurance Snr, 7 shares; James Hogg, 2 shares; William Baxter, 2 shares; Robert Chivas, Longside, 2 shares; Alexander Aiken, 2 shares; William Laurance, 1 share; Charles Laurance, 1 share; John Mackintosh, 1 share; Georg Law, 1 share; Thomas Alexander, 1 share; William Wilcox of Park, 1 share; Charles Brand Jnr, Raven, Craigmills, 1 share - all merchants. Robert Morrison, baker, 6 shares; Rodrick Gray, writer, 8 shares; John Young, shoemaker, 2 shares; John Chalmers, leather merchant, 2 shares; Thomas Hislop, shoemaker, 1 share; Margaret Bisset Laurance, relic of the late Charles Laurance, merchant, all of Peterhead, 1 share. Charles Duncan, commision agent, 4 shares; Margaret Coleman, wife of Charles Robert Coleman, wharfinger, 4 shares; George Anton, corn factor, 2 shares; Theophilus John Slave or Slare, wharfinger, 1 share; William Grant Pringle Henry, 1 share and James Grant Henry, 1 share, sons of George Henry, cloth factor, Mary Henry, wife of Thomas Henry, cloth factor, 1 share. Mary Stewart May Henry, 1 share, Jane Henry, 1 share, spinsters, daughters of the said George Henry, cloth factor, all residing in London.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen CIty Archives))

Master:
1835: Master James Robb

23/12/1862:
Schooner BUCHAN, of Moldon, took on board in almost stupified condition from a small boat the crew (4 men and 2 lads) of smack EXCELLENT. She had been run into and sunk 8 miles from Spurn Head by an unidentified brig. The BUCHAN, in a lull in the storm, put into the roadstead at Great Yarmouth and landed the sufferers.
(Leeds Mercury)

Notes: Cost at construction £1,020