ORLANDO
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1837
Object NameBRIG
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 74.7' x breadth 19.8'
gross tonnage 157 tons
gross tonnage 157 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000967
Keywords
Yard Number: 81
Fate: crushed by ice in the Gulf of Riga, 25 April 1839
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, male bust figurehead
15/05/1837: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Benjamin Moir, merchant, Aberdeen and Orlando Hart Wilson, lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
Registration cancelled - vessel lost 25 April 1839, Gulf of Riga
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Master:
1838: Master Orlando Hart Wilson
Voyage:
1838: Aberdeen - St. Petersburg
Although there is no mention of this vessel in Lloyd's Register of these years, the ship was apparently trading to the Baltic Countires under Capt. Robinson. ORLANDO sailed from Aberdeen bound for Riga on 9 April under Capt. Robinson. The following account came from another vessel and says that a fleet of seventy sailing ships bound for Riga had rounded the point into the Gulf of Riga on 23 April 1839 and proceeded along a cut in the ice about a quarter of a mile wide. They had proceeded only 25 miles when the wind changed and the ice closed in on them forcing them to anchor on the night of the 24th. On the morning of the 25th about eight o'clock the people of the ORLANDO of Aberdeen were heaving their clothes on to the ice and in three minutes she went down leaving no trace. They walked over the ice to the land - a distance of six miles and stayed there two days before proceeding. On reaching Lebau Capt. Robinson, Captain Horn and three other British masters were lodged in one house and the mates in another.
(compiled from reports in Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser (29/05/1839) and North Devon Journal (06/06/1839))
Notes: Contract Price £1,746 of £11 per ton (Builder's List in Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
1807
