HOPE
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date21 September 1843
Object NameBRIG
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 82' x breadth 19' 5" x depth 11' 2"
gross tonnage 115 tons
gross tonnage 115 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001028
Keywords
Yard Number: 140
Official Number: 6819
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1892
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, round sterned, carvel built, no galleries or figurehead
Owners:
1843: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Donaldson Rose, William Rose and James Rose shipowners trading as Donaldson Rose & Co, Aberdeen, all 64 shares
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1863-69: Millar & Sons, registered at Montrose
1875-85: R. Millar
1885-92: J. Spalding, registered at Arbroath
Masters:
1850: Master D. Wishart
1863-69: Master A. West
1885-92: Master J. Spalding
Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1850: Aberdeen - the Baltic
1863-69: Montrose coaster
1875: Montrose
Note: Cost at construction, £815 (Builder's List held in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
HOPE is only occasionally in Lloyd's, when it re-appears in Lloyd's Register in 1863 (H425) it is wrongly dated as 1848, however after repeating this error through the 1860s Lloyd's 1875 (H494) gives the correct 1843 date.
1816
