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Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, founded c.1790)
DateJune 1825
Object NameSMACK
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 58' x breadth 17' x depth 9'3"
Registered Tonnage: 76 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001659
About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

Fate: unknown, last mention in Lloyd's 1841 (C920)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Smack rigged, 1 deck, 1 mast, running bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, no galleries or figure head, Lloyds classification A1 until 1839

Owners:
06/07/1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Robert Catto, Alexander Brown and George Thomson, merchants (Builders List in AMM)
1834[?]-41: Leith & Clyde Shipping Co.
Subscribing as trustees for Leith & Clyde Shipping Co. all 64 shares;
William Pirie, merchant, George Thomson, merchant, Robert Catto, merchant
(plus 4 others)

Master:
1827-33: Master William Campbell
1834-41: Master J. Smith

Voyages:
1827-33: Greenock - Aberdeen
1834-41: Aberdeen - Glasgow
QUEBEC PACKET
Nicol Reid & Co.
10 April 1822
CRAIGIEVAR
Alexander HALL & Co.
22 August 1825
ROTTERDAM PACKET
Alexander HALL & Co.
17 May 1816
Alexander HALL & Co.
20 July 1814
AURORA
Catto & Co.
April 1816
EDINBURGH PACKET
Alexander HALL & Co.
19 July 1812
FOX
1819
UNIVERSE
DUTHIE
3 April 1826
ROBERT GARDEN
August 1826
MANSFIELD
August 1824
DIADEM
DUTHIE
June 1824
FORTH
Aberdeen, Leith and Clyde Shipping Co.
1826
ABERDEENSHIRE
February 1825
DEVERON
DUTHIE
1820
ARAB
Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co)
1839
WALTER HAMILTON
Alexander HALL & Co.
28 March 1831
CITY OF ABERDEEN
DUTHIE
16 March 1826
TRITON
Nicol Reid & Co.
1837
HARMONY
Alexander HALL & Co.
1838
COLUMBIA
DUTHIE
April 1825
DUKE OF GORDON
Nicol Reid & Co.
January 1827