The Dundee Shipping Lists

1829-30 Dundee Shipping Companies - Information from the Dundee Directories

(SOURCE – DUNDEE DIRECTORY 1829 – 30)
DUNDEE, PERTH AND LONDON SHIPPING COMPANY

Office and Warehouses, Shore

DIRECTORS IN DUNDEE
John Alison, John Baxter, David Baxter, James Crockatt, John Gray, James Hay, Andrew Low, David Martin, and John Thain.

DIRECTORS IN PERTH
George Gray, Robert  Ross, and John Ross.
Thomas Matthew & James Nicoll, Managers, Dundee

THE ATHOLL STEAM TUG
PASSAGE BETWEEN DUNDEE AND LONDON

Two Barrels-bulk of Luggage for each Cabin Passenger Free
PASSAGE TO AND FROM GLASGOW ..................................... 15s
GRANGEMOUTH ....................................................................10s

Passengers having opportunity of taking care of their own Luggage, the Company will not be answerable for any, except Receipt is granted, and Freight paid for it.
Measurable goods carried between Dundee and London, to pay at rate of 2s..6d per barrel-bulk; between Dundee and Glasgow, 2s  9d; and between Dundee and Perth, 1s. Weighable Goods to be charged by the gross weight; and all measurable goods by the actual measurement. The Rates to be understood as from the Wharf at London, and from Port-Dundas to the Harbour of Dundee; and from the harbour of Dundee to the harbour at Perth; and vice versa, - when the obligation on the Ship is to cease. Freights payable on delivery of the Goods; and no deduction to be made from the Rates.  The Company will pay no Damage on Goods by their Vessels, unless where it has been occasioned by neglect in stowing the cargo. The  Shippers of Horses, Cows etc. to defray the expense of their provender, and fitting up stalls for them.

Goods by the Glasgow Traders, shipped or landed in any part of the Canal, to pay the full Glasgow Rates; and Goods shipped or landed at Grangemouth, to pay two-thirds.
The Company are not accountable for leakage, damage, or waste,  occasioned by insufficiency of packages; nor for breakage or waste of Lump Sugars, or other Articles shipped loose; breakage of Glass, Bottles or Earthenware; nor for loss or damage on Goods after being landed on the Quays.
Goods consigned to order, or warehoused for convenience of the parties to whom they are consigned, are entirely at their risk. All Goods are held subject to a lein in favour of the Shipowners  generally, not only for the Freight and Charges thereon, but for all previously unsettled Freights and Charges. Goods going to or coming from London, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Leith, by the Company’s Vessels, to be taken on board the Perth Lighters in preference to other goods.
Note – Tables of the Rates of Freights to be had at the Company’s Office.

THE HERO, Steam Packet,   James Catanach, Manager
Sails between Dundee and Perth.

                             
The Hero sails from Dundee 3 hours before high water, and from Perth, about high water there.

Note – Last Season, the preceding Nine Ships, caught 197 Whales, which produced 1872 Tuns of Oil, and 112 Tons of Bone, value together about L.56,000.

With thanks to Linda Nicoll for compiling this list

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Iain D. McIntosh, 2022