PRINCESS CHARLOTTE - Foreign-going barque (‘whaling ship’) 1845

Source: TNA: PRO BT 98/639

Schedule C (Crew List foreign)

Dundee to Davis’ Straits to Dundee 25^th March until 30^th September 1845

I was commissioned to look into the career of the Carpenter, Alexander Doig, who spent many years Dundee registered whaling ships. Therefore, I did not include details of many of the other crew in this.

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Name	Age	Born	Capacity	Last ship
Alexander Deuchars	37	Dundee	Master	ADVICE
William Latho	49	St. Monance	Mate	FAIRY
George Deuchars	20	Dundee	2^nd Mate	ADVICE
Alexander Doig	33	Myreside	Carpenter	ADVICE
Alexander Webster	19	?Kuisemuir?	2^nd Carpenter	First ship

Schedule A

‘An agreement made, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament in the eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, between Alexander Deuchars the Master of the ship Princess Charlotte at the Port of Dundee and of the burthen of 359 tons, and the several persons whose names are subscribed hereto.

It is Agreed by and on the Part of the said Persons, and they severally hereby engage to serve on board the said Ship, and the Boats belonging thereto, in the several Capacities against their respective names expressed, on a Voyage from the Port of Dundee to Davis’ Straits or Greenland and back to the Port of Dundee and the said Crew further engage to conduct themselves in an orderly, faithful, honest, careful and sober Manner, and to be at all times diligent in their respective Duties and Stations, and to be obedient to the lawful Commands of the Master, in every thing relating to the said Ship, and the Materials, Stores, and Cargo thereof, whether on board such Ship, in Boats, or on Shore. They shall not go out of the said Ship, nor the Boats belonging thereto, onboard any other vessel, or to be on shore under any pretence whatsoever without leave of the Captain, or Commanding Officer on board, first obtained. That in default thereof, they shall forfeit and lose all such Privilege for Oil, Striking, Cutting, and Fish Money, which, at such times of absence, may be Due unto them and shall further forfeit two days pay; and for every twenty-four hours of such absence they shall forfeit the amount of six days pay: Renouncing, by these Presents, all Title, Right, Demand, and Pretension thereunto for ever, their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators.

And also, That if any Officer, or other Person belonging to the said Ship, shall either intentionally or through Cowardice, refuse or decline, or shall not use his or their utmost Endeavours to Strike, Take, or Secure Whales, or other Creatures living in the said Seas, or be guilty of any Act of Cowardice, whereby to intimidate others, or shall use any artifice to discourage or dissuade any of the Ship’s Crew, from doing their Duty in any respect, or shall pretend indisposition, while the laborious Part of the Duty of the Fishing is Performing, such as Making Off, &c., such Officer or other Person, being thereof convicted upon due proof made before the Master for the Time being, and the other Officers of a Council which shall consist of a Master, Mate and Surgeon, and such other of the Ship’s Crew, as shall be approved by the said Master for the Time being, (and on the Death of the Master the Command shall devolve on the next Commanding Officer,) which said Council shall be held in the Master’s Cabin, and Proceedings and Resolutions of such Council shall be entered in the Ship’s Log-Book, and signed by the majority of the said Council agreeing, thereto; such Offender or Offenders, shall be rendered incapable of the Station he had by these Presents undertaken, and put or reduced to the Station of an able seaman or ordinary seaman, as in the Judgement of the said Council as be thought capable of, and another Person appointed in his place by the Master; and from that Time such Person so reduced shall not be entitled to receive any Oil, Striking, Cutting, Fish Money, or Wages, other than what he shall be entitled to receive in the Station to which he shall be so reduced, but the same shall be paid to the Person so appointed to succeed him in Lieu of the Wages and Privileges he had in his former Station.

In consideration of which Services to be duly, honestly, carefully, and faithfully performed, the said Master duly hereby promise and agree to Pay to the said crew, by way of Compensation or Wages the Amount against their Names respectively expressed: And it is hereby agreed, that any embezzlement, or wilful, or negligent Loss or Destruction, of any part of the Ship’s Cargo or Stores, shall be made good to the Owner out of the Wages (so far as they will extend) of the Seaman guilty of the said; and if any seaman shall have entered himself qualified for a duty to which he shall prove to be not competent he shall be subject to reduction of the rate of Wages, hereby agreed for, in proportion to his incompetency. In witness whereof the said parties have hereto subscribed men Named on the Days against their respective signatures mentioned’.

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Name	Capacity	Amount of wages per Calendar month, share, or voyage	Amount of wages advanced at time of entry	Amount of monthly allotment
		£ s d	£ s d	£ s d
Alexander Deuchars	Master	7 - -	- - -	- - -
William Latho	Mate	3 - -	3 - -	3 - -
George Deuchars	2^nd Mate	3 - -	3 - -	3 - -
Alexander Gray	Harpooner	1 - -	1 - -	1 - -
James Ramsey	Line Manager	2 10 -	2 10 -	1 5 -
Robert Baillie	Seaman (young and junior to some)	1 10 -	1 10 -	- 15 -
Alexander Doig	Carpenter	3 5 -	3 5 -	1 12 6
Alexander Webster	2^nd Carpenter	2 - -	2 - -	- - -

Name	Capacity	Oil money per Imperial Ton	Hand money or money in advance	Striking money on sizeable fish
		£ s d	£ s d	£ s d
Alexander Deuchars	Master	- - -	- - -	- - -
William Latho	Mate	- 6 6	7 7 -	- 10 6
George Deuchars	2^nd Mate	- 1 9	- - -	- - -
Alexander Gray	Harpooner	- 7 -	7 7 -	- 10 6
James Ramsey	Line Manager	- 1 6	7 7 -	- 10 6
Robert Baillie	Seaman (young and junior to some)	- 1 6	7 7 -	- 10 6
Alexander Doig	Carpenter	- 3 -	7 7 -	- 10 6
Alexander Webster	2^nd Carpenter	- 1 6	7 7 -	- 10 6

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