PANDORA

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

Date1828

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionsbreadth 21'4" x depth 12'7"
Registered Tonnage: 137 ton according to Master List (157 according to Lloyd's underwriters 1829, P7)) (144 in LR 1866, P40)

Object numberABDSHIP001664

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

Fate: sank off Land's End, 3 June 1866

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, single deck with beams

Owners:
1829-34: A. Martin, registered at Dundee by 1834.
1839-49: Baney & Co., registered at Lynn
1852-66: Dexter

Masters:
1829-33: Master R. Scott
1834: Master A. Todd
1835-36: Master D. Stewart
1836-37: Master D. Banks
1838-39: Master Baney
1840-46: Master J. Davis
1848-49: Master Baney
1852-66: Master Dexter

Voyages:
1829: Dundee - the Baltic
1830-33: Leith - the Baltic
1834-36: Dundee - the Baltic
1836-37: Dundee - Archangel (Russia)
1838-39: London coaster
1840-41: Dublin - London
1842-45: Lynn - Hartlepool
1848: Lynn coaster
1852-66: Lynn coaster

General History:
02/06/1854:
Grimsby 24 May - brig PANDORA, Dexter, from Lynn to Seaham, put in leaky.
(Newcastle Courant)

15/11/1861:
Court action Smith V. Dexter. Alleged Captain Dexter had offered £50 to Smith to get his vessel into a place of safety and had since saught to run off his bargain. Magistrates awarded £30 and £1.12s costs. This was a special court held at Bridlington Quay to arbitrate several cases of salvage arising out of the fearful storm which ravaged the bay and harbour of Bridlington Sunday last, whereby 13 vessels were stranded or wrecked and many others seriously damaged.
(Hull Packet)

08/06/1866:
Penzance, 3 June. The brigantine PANDORA, of Sunderland, from Neath to Treport with coals, foundered off Land's End - crew saved.
(Newcastle Courant)