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Gibbon sea-faring

Many members of the family of Gibbon of Aberdeen were ship owners, ship builders and captains.
The following attempted table of Gibbon ships is constructed from two sources:

aberdeenships.com (Ships built in Aberdeen.)
List of Aberdeen ships on display at the Aberdeen Maritime Museum.

Ship name	Type	Date built	Notes
Venus	brigantine	1781	Owned and mastered by Captain A. Gibbon. This would be Arthur or Alexander. 1784 route Arkangel to London. Lost c.1784.
Fortune		1795	Owner: R. Gibbon Master: A. Martin Sailing: Leith - Aberdeen
Dolphin	sloop	1798	Date of Build/Launch: 17 Sept 1798 Re-registered: 30 December 1825 (Aberdeen Register of Shipping 1825, No. 169) Owners included Alexander Gibbon, Merchant and James Gibbon, Merchant. Totally lost 10 March 1837.
Tyne	sloop	1808	Owners included Alexander Gibbon and James Gibbon. No. 47 in Register of Shipping at Aberdeen City Archives 1824.
Aboyne	brigantine	1814	Built by Brebner ship-builders.
Ocean	brigantine	1814	Built by Gibbon ship-builders.
Timandra		1814	Built by Gibbon ship-builders.
Bromby	smack	1815	Registered: 25 Oct 1815 (No. 51 in 1815 Aberdeen Register of Shipping) Owners included: John Gibbon, Merchant, Trustee of the Aberdeen and Hull Shipping Company. (Information from 1825 Aberdeen Register of Shipping Vol. 141) Cancelled in 1836.
Waterloo	brigantine	1815	Launched 28th July 1815 Owners included Alexander Gibbon (merchant).
Atlas	brigantine	1817	Built by Gibbon ship-builders.
Castle Forbes		1818	Built by Gibbon ship-builders. 1819 Licenced East India Company to T.L. Reid, Fort William, Calcutta Trading Station, India. Owner R. Gibbon, Captain J. Frazier, route London to Bombay. 1821 Master T. Reed, owner R. Gibbon, route Cork. 1831 Master J. Ord, owner R. Gibbon, route London to Calcutta.
Fox	smack	1819	Date of Build/Launch: 1 July 1819 (No. 45 in Aberdeen Register of Shipping) Re-registered: 1825 (No. 143 in Aberdeen Register of Shipping) Owners included: John Gibbon, Merchant, Trustee of the Aberdeen and Hull Shipping Company. Sold to David Buchan, Blacksmith, in Aberdeen on 4 May 1832.
Fly	schooner	1820	Built by Gibbon ship-builders.

Note on Gibbon on pp.175-176 of [Johnston, 1894].

References

The Port of Aberdeen: A history of its trade and shipping from the 12th century to the present day by Victoria Elizabeth Clark, 1921.

Sources yet to be consulted

Sale of Gibbon's house and shipyard.
- Page 77 of [Clark, 1921] refers to the sale of "Gibbon's house and shipyard" in Aberdeen Burgh Records (Mss), vol.LXV, pp.201, 229, 231-2.
- This must be [ACA]. Aberdeen City: Register of Sasines. CA/2/1/65: Volume 65. Date 1766 to 1769.
- Unclear which Gibbon would be selling at this time.
University of Aberdeen, Special Collections.
- MS 2940. Aberdeen Shipmaster Society papers. 1630 to 1965.
- MS 3070. Aberdeen Shipmaster Society papers. 1590 to 1946.
A Short History of the Shipmaster Society, Alexander Clark, Aberdeen, 1911.
Capt. Arthur Gibbon on p.63.

Doric Columns
- Cochar & Gibbon Shipyard
The ship-building business of Alexander Hall and Company was established in 1790 by Alexander Hall. He took over the business of Cochar & Gibbon, where he had been an apprentice and then a partner.