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

Object numberABDSHIP001668

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

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)