TRAVELLER
Shipbuildervessel built by
Nicol Reid & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen, Scotland, founded c.1790)
Shipowner
James Smith
Shipownervessel built for
Neil Smith Junior
Shipownervessel built for
James Godsman
Date1834
Object NameBRIGANTINE
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 72 1/3' x breadth 21 5/12' x depth 13 1/6'
Registered Tonnage: 140 ton
Registered Tonnage: 140 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001668
Keywords
Fate: Wrecked on Trefusis rocks, Falmouth, 28 March 1836
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, figurehead is female bust.
Owners:
07/01/1834: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Neil Smith Junior and James Smith merchant and James Godsman, shipmaster and master of this vessel.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
Master:
1834-36: Master James Godsman
General History:
29/06/1835:
"At Cuxhaven [Germany], June 22, TRAVELLER, Godsman, from St. Domingo"
(Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser)
03/04/1836:
"Falmouth, Mar. 28 - About one o'clock in the morning, the TRAVELLER, of Aberdeen, Godsman master, from St. Domingo, with a cargo of Coffee and Cotton, which put in here for orders about five days since, drove on one anchor ... she soon got on Trefusis rocks, and about three o'clock was a total wreck, and her cargo destroyed; every effort was made to save the ship and cargo, but all of no avail; the crew however, are saved."
(Bell's Weekly Messenger)
1819
June 1826
