EARL OF FIFE

DateMay 1825

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 66' 4" x breadth 20' 1/2" x depth 11' 6"
Registered Tonnage: 113 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001735

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Stephen & Sons

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1833 (E52)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Snow rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built, male bust figurehead.

Owners:
1825: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
Alexander Mortimer, shipmaster, 16 shares; Andrew Geddes, merchant, 8 shares; Thomas Scott, shipmaste, 4 shares.
Other owners; William Simpson, merchant, 16 shares; John Lindsay, miller at Bucksburn Mills, Aberdeen, 4 shares; James Barclay Jnr, Templand, Forfar, 8 shares; George Crawford, Montrose, merchant, 8 shares.
(Source Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))

Masters:
1824-28: Master Thomas Scott
1829-33: Master S. Fairburn

Voyages (from Lloyd's underwriters):
1827: Leith - Inverkeithing.
1829-33: Liverpool - Bremen