LORD ARCHIBALD HAMILTON

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

DateJune 1819

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength: 62 1/3' x breadth: 18 5/12' x depth: 10 1/12'
Registered Tonnage: 88 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001652

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

Fate: wrecked at Girdleness, 16 August 1829

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, no figurehead.

Owners:
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Maitland, merchant, 8 shares; James Jameson, merchant, 8 shares; William Connon, coal broker, 8 shares
Other shareholders in 1825;
Alexander Allan, advocate, 4 shares; Simpson Ogilvie, advocate, 4 shares; Deter Mortimer, merchant, 8 shares; Alexander Falconer, merchant, 4 shares; James Williamson, flesher, 8 shares; George Jamieson, cabinet Maker, 8 shares; Alexander Collie, slater, 4 shares; all Aberdeen.
(No. 132 in Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1820-22: Master Galloway
1823-28: Master James Masson

Voyages: always described as a London coaster

General History:
29/08/1829:
Shipwreck - Crew Miraculously Saved.
On sunday last [actually two weeks before] between twelve and one PM the brig LORD ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, Sword master, belonging to Aberdeen, and bound to Sunderland in ballast, in attempiting to go to sea, was driven ashore among the rocks at the short-ness, near the mouth of the harbour. [...] with a strong north-easterly wind and swell, occasioned by a previous gale from that quarter, which with the flood-tide setting to southward, made the brig [...] fall so much to leeward that it was found necessary to let go the anchor; but before it could bring the vessel up, she struck the rocks, where she immediately filled with water. The sea now broke in tremendous waves over the fore part of the vessel [...] while the crew betook themselves to the after part or quarter-deck, where their perilous situation for some time excited the most lively apprehensions for their safety. The intrepid and praiseworthy conduct of some shipmasters relieved the painful anxiety [...] by bringing them all, five in number, to land, before the arrival of Captain Manby's apparatus, which had been sent for [...] The means of effecting so readily their deliverance was a rope or lead line, brought to land by the ship dog - the faithful animal having nearly perished before gaining footing on the rocks. A strong rope was now sent ashore to people collected on the beach, who eagerly rendered every assistance in which the exertions of Captain Scott, master pilot, were particularly destinguished. While the crew hesitated how to avail themselves of this advantage, Captain Scott showed them how to use the ship rope by attaching it to his person, and throwing himself from a pinnacle of the craggy rock [...] During the night nearly all the materials were saved; but the vessel, which had been merely kept together by being jammed in a cove among the rocks has gon to pieces.
(Aberdeen Courant as reported in the Sheffield Independent)