JOSEPH

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

Date1836

Object NameSMACK

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 46' 1/10 x breadth 13' 5/10 x depth 7' 5/10
gross tonnage 29 3129/3500

Object numberABDSHIP000964

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 78

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1859 (J498).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged (in Lloyd's as a cutter); 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead, sheathed with yellow metal.

Owners:
01/06/1836: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
George Hogarth & Co.
10/03/1843: Re-registered;
William Hogarth, merchant (64 shares).
12/09/1851: William Hogarth, merchant, transferred by bill of sale 64 shares to Charles Gordon Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Lennox.
1857: Registration cancelled and transferred to Banff.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1859: Stevenson & Co., registered at Jersey. (LLoyd's)

Masters:
1839-40: Master George Howling
1841: Master T. Hain
1843: Master Samuel Cook
1846: Masters Henry Allen, George Cook
1847: Master William Martine
1848: Master James Oakley
1857: Master George Brooks
(from Aberdeen Register)
1859: Master W. Steel (Lloyd's)

Voyages:
1836-48: Aberdeen
1859: Jersey coaster

Notes:
Contract cost £393 (Builder's List in Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Lloyds Classification A1
Original registry certificate dated 1 June 1836 was cancelled in 1843 in order to Re-register 10 March 1843, the vessel having been lengthened and enlarged by A. Duthie & Co. shipbuilders, Aberdeen.