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John Coutts (shipbuilder)

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Coutts Family, who was well known for banking. It was in 1840 when Coutts had traveled south to Tyneside to open his own shipyard in an old wooden shipyard at Low Walker on the Tyne. It was at this old wooden shipyard on the Tyne in 1842 that Coutts had built and then launched the famous P.S. Prince
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In 1844, Coutts had built the Q.E.D. in his old shipyard in Tyneside. The Q.E.D. was an Iron-hulled barque ship. The Q.E.D. had an auxiliary engine system—an extremely pioneering system—along with the very innovative feature, and a world's first, of a water ballast; it carried double bottoms. These
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as a designer for their ships; Mitchell was considered to be one of the "Three Wise Men" from Aberdeen for the iron ship building industry in Tyneside. Coutts was known for hiring many of his employees from his hometown in Aberdeen: this was especially the case with his venture in Coutts and
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innovations weren't just for the novelty but would eventually become the norm many different industries especially in the collier trade. The elaborate water ballast had virtually replaced the sand-and-gravel ballasts that were the industry standard previously.
84:. She was designed to take emigrants to Australia and although she cost one-third more than similar vessels, the ship was three times more efficient with 280 cabins including 60 in first class. The vessel overturned in a storm in 53:, was built along with the help of his partner John Ronalds in his shipyard in Aberdeen. It was shortly thereafter in 1840 when Coutts moved south to Tyneside to go at it alone and open his own shipyard. 41:, the son of farmer Patrick Coutts and Margaret Milne. Coutts was always regarded as a gifted Aberdonian from his precocious up-bringing. Coutts had been the son to a farmer named Patrick Coutts in 45:. Had been titled one of the "Three Wise Men" from Arberdeen, Coutts was fundamental and the foundation to the innovative iron ship building industry in 235: 72:
In 1848, Coutts took William Parkinson as a partner and started a new trading company called Coutts and Parkinson; they had a shipyard at
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John Coutts was very adamant about making it known he was not related to the well renowned and highly reputable
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on her maiden voyage with 300 passengers aboard; she had to be towed back to London at a cost of £3,000.
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Albert; the first iron ship of substantial size to fare the seas and the
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Parkinson at Willington Quay from the years 1849 through 1855.
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John Coutts (merchant)
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
Tyneside
Scottish
river Thames
Willington Quay
William Schaw Lindsay
The Downs
Charles Mitchell
Building Ships on the North East Coast: c1640–1914
ISBN
978-1-898880-04-2



Aberdeen's Links With Tyneside Shipbuilding


Shipbuilders on the Tyne with Shetland Ancestry
Archived
Wayback Machine
"William Schaw Lindsay: righting the wrongs of a radical shipowner"
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1810 births
1862 deaths
People from Aberdeen
Scottish shipbuilders
Scottish company founders
19th-century Scottish businesspeople

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