EVANDER

Shipbuildervessel built by Nicol Reid & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, founded c.1790)

DateApril 1819

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 74 1/12' x breadth 21 5/12' x depth 12 3/12'
Registered Tonnage: 141 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001651

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

Fate: Wrecked off Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth 29 September 1842

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, brigantine, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built.

Owners:
1824: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
John Lumsden, merchant, 32 shares; James Mefs, merchant, 8 shares; Alexander Dalgarno, merchant, 8 shares; all Aberdeen.
Other owners: James Harper, mason, 8 shares; Janet Cruickshank or Bothwell, widow of James Bothwell once shipmaster, 8 shares; all Aberdeen.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1841: Owner, J. Ogilvy (Lloyd's, 1841)

Masters:
1819-21: Master, Beverly
1822-24: Master, A Terry (or Deary)
1824-33: Master, William Bathie (from 1824 in Aberdeen Register, from 1830 in Lloyds)
1834-37: Master, D. Edgar
1838-42: Master, McDonald

Voyages:
1822-28: London coaster
1830-31: London - Leith
1832-33: Hull coaster
1834-35: Aberdeen - Archangel (Russia)
1836-37: London
1838-40: London - Riga
1841-42: Belfast - Newry

General History:
17/07/1822:
For St Johns, New Brunswick, the 1st class and fast sailing brig EVANDER (142 tons per register) Andrew Deary, master, will take in such goods and passengers as may offer before 18th inst. when she will positively sail. For freight or passage apply John Lumsden, Marischal Street.
(Aberdeen Journal)

01/10/1842:
Leith Roads, 30th Sept. Brig EVANDER, of Aberdeen, Roberts master, from Grangemouth to Hull with cargo of pig iron, sunk yesterday morning about 5 miles to eastward of Inchkeith. So rapidly did water rush in to the vessel that the master deemed it proper to hoist the boats out, got the crew's clothes and his own into them and crew into boats. They lay by for an hour and a half, when vessel went down head foremost. Stern blew out with a report as loud as a heavy gun. There was fresh gale from North east with heavy sea running. One of the boats got into Leith, the other with difficulty got into Pettycur in Fife.
(Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh))