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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
FOX
1819
AURORA
Catto & Co.
April 1816
EDINBURGH PACKET
Alexander HALL & Co.
19 July 1812
ROBERT GARDEN
August 1826
UNIVERSE
DUTHIE
3 April 1826
MANSFIELD
August 1824
ABERDEENSHIRE
February 1825
DIADEM
DUTHIE
June 1824
FORTH
Aberdeen, Leith and Clyde Shipping Co.
1826
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