ARIEL

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

Date1837

Object NameBRIGANTINE

MediumWOOD & PART IRON BOLTS

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 69 1/6' x breadth 19 1/12' x depth 12 1/3'
Registered Tonnage: 128 ton

length 49' 0 x breadth 19'0 x depth12'4" (Lloyd's)
Gross Tonnage 128 1414/3500

Object numberABDSHIP001674

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Nicol Reid & Co.

Fate: Wrecked on Anholt reef, Denmark, 25 October 1846.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brig rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, carvel built, no galleries, female bust figurehead

Owners:
14/04/1837: Registered at Aberdeen as owned by Henry Adamson, merchant, and George Robson, shipmaster and William Edwards, grocer
1837: Henry Adamson, merchant 32 shares; George Raeburn, merchant, 8 shares; William Edward, grocer 4 shares all of Aberdeen.
Later part owner Donaldson Rose in association with others for and on behalf of Aberdeen Rope & Sail Co.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1837-41: Master George Raeburn
1841-45: Master George Thomson
1846: Master George Watt

Voyages:
1837-38: Aberdeen - Riga
1838-41: Aberdeen - Archangel
1843-45: Aberdeen coaster

General History:
12/11/1846:
"Aberdeen, Nov. 9.—ARIEL, Henderson,of Aberdeen, bound from Stettin to London, with wheat, got on shore on Anholt reef on the 25th Oct. during thick weather, drifted off, and sunk in deep water; crew saved." (Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser)