COUNTESS OF KINTORE

COUNTESS OF KINTORE WAS BUILT IN 1886 BY DUTHIE AT ABERDEEN SHE WAS  A  VESSEL OF 700 / 737 TONS AND REGISTERED IN ABERDEEN.SHE WAS OWNED BY J COOK

SHE WAS CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILLE & CO FOR SEVERAL VOYAGES DOWN TO NEW ZEALAND.

ON SOME VOYAGES EUROPEAN BIRDS WERE BROUGHT OUT TO NEW ZEALAND ( LOCALS MISSED THE SOUND OF ENGLISH SONG BIRDS FIRST THING IN THE MORNINGN IN 1870 SHE BOUGHT OUT 50 ROOKS FROM THE U.K TO AUCKLAND ) THE SHIPS MASTER AT THIS TIME BEING CAPT. PETHERBRIDGE. IN 1876 SHE BROUGHT OUT 13 SALMON TO LYTTLETON, THE SHIPS MASTER AT THIS TIME BEING CAPT. NORIE