Showing posts with label shipmaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shipmaster. Show all posts

25 February 2018

Adam Durno and William Fiddler

TO THE CREDITORS OF

ADAM DURNO, Shipmaster in Aberdeen, and WILLIAM FIDDLER, Farmer, or residing in Broomhills, Slains, late Owners or part-Owners of the Sloop Nelly of Aberdeen.  Notice is hereby given, to all those having lawful Claims on the above mentioned Adam Durno, and William Fiddler, to lodge the same with George Thomson, John Catto, and Wm. Johnston, Merchants in Aberdeen, to whom a Disposition was granted by the said Adam Durno and William Fiddler, of their interest in the sloop Nelly, in trust for their Creditors; or with Robert Morice, Advocate in Aberdeen, agent for the s aid trustees, within one month from this date; failing their doing which, they will not be entitled to demand any share or proportion of the price of said Vessel, in terms of the trust right.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 25th February 1818.

17 July 2016

FIVE GUINEAS REWARD.

WHEREAS, between twelve and one o'clock on the night of Sunday the fourteenth instant, as James Blance, Shipmaster in Peterhead, was travelling on horseback between Ellon and Aberdeen, he was accosted, a little to the northward of the Tollbar at Belhelvie, by a man having the appearance of a sailor, who rose from behind a dyke at the road side, and ordered him to stop; and he having declined to do so, and put spurs to his horse, the said man fired a pistol at him, as he rode off, by the ball from which he narrowly escaped being wounded;
A REWARD OF FIVE GUINEAS
Is hereby offered to any person who will apprehend and detain the man above mentioned, or give such information respecting him, to Hugh Fullerton, Procurator Fiscal of Aberdeenshire, as shall be the means of his being apprehended and brought to justice.
DESCRIPTION.
The said man has the appearance of a sailor, is of middle size, stout made, has large whiskers nearly meeting each other and was dressed in a brown jacket, dark blue trowsers, and either a black leather, or a glazed hat.

Aberdeen, July 15, 1816.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 17th July 1816.

10 January 2016

Fatal accident: George Allardyce, shipmaster

On Friday the 29th ult. a party of four men went from Macduff, to have some sport in shooting sea fowls among the rocks about three miles distant, when one of them, Mr George Allardyce, shipmaster, while in the act of loading his gun on the top of a tremendous cliff, slipping his foot, fell some hundred feet to the foot of the rock.  His companions hastened to the spot to render their friend any possible assistance, but they found him speechless, and his skull fractured in a shocking manner; he was immediately placed on the back of one of the party, but life was extinct before the bearer could reach the summit of the awful precipice, which he accomplished with difficulty.  Captain Allardyce has left a widow and eight children to deplore his melancholy fate, and that premature death which he had, in the course of his maritime life, three times escaped, having as often suffered shipwreck.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 10th January 1816.