ELIZABETH

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1840

Object NameSCHOONER

MediumWOOD; FIR, OAK, ELM

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 83.6' x breadth 20' x depth 12.2'
gross tonnage 136 tons (Hall) 191 tons (Lloyd's)

Object numberABDSHIP000996

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 110

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1848 (E381).

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Schooner rigged, then hermaphrodite rigged (1847), 1 deck, 2 masts, , standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, female figurehead.

Owners:
1840: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Andrew Phillips, merchant, 16 shares; William Phillips, merchant, 16 shares; John Smith, shipmaster, 4 shares.
Other shareholders; Helen Jane Ross, spinster, 4 shares; Charles Phillips, shipmaster, 8 shares; John Elliot, merchant, 8 shares; Lancelot Stobart Carr, merchant, 4 shares; all Aberdeen. Thomas Craven Jnr., merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4 shares.
1847: Subscribing owners;
Patrick Bannerman, coalbroker, 16 shares; Robert Eddie, brewer, 8 shares; Alexander Salter, shipmaster, 8 shares; all Abderdeen.
Other shareholders: John Roy Jnr., gardner, 8 shares; John Martin, flesher, 8 shares; William Buyers Jnr., distiller, 8 shares, all Aberdeen. Lancelot Stobart Carr, merchant, Newcastle, Northumberland, 8 shares.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1841-48: Master J. Smith
1848: Master Salter (Post Office Aberdeen Directory)

Voyages (Lloyd's):
1841-45: Aberdeen - Newcastle
1846: Aberdeen
1847: London
1848: Aberdeen - London

Note: Cost at construction, £1,515 (Builder's List in the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Hermaphrodite denotes an irregular rig part way between two recognised types.