MATCHLESS

Date1826

Object NameBRIG

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 79 11/12' x breadth 23 3/12' x depth 15 5/12'
Registered Tonnage: 188 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001738

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: William Stephen & Sons

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1849 (M640)

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Brigantine rigged, 1 deck, 2 masts, square stern, standing bowsprit, carvel built, a woman figurehead

Owners:
1826: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owners;
William Simpson, merchant, 8 shares; Alexander Mortimer, shipowner, 4 shares; John Nicol, shipmaster, 4 shares.
other shareholders;
William Reid, Flesher, 8 shares; George Nicol, merchant, 8 shares; James Bate, vintner, 4 shares; all Aberdeen. James Barclay, farmer, Templand, 8 shares; James Morrison, farmer, Balhagarty, 8 shares; John Lindsay, miller at Mill of Buxburn [Bucksburn], 8 shares; all Aberdeen. George Crawford, manufacturer, Forfar, 8 shares.
1833: Owned by George Nicol, merchant, Alexander Ross shipmaster, and George Thomson (partner of Catto Thomson Rope and Sail Manufactury).
1838: Sold to Montrose.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives)
1838-44: Crawford, registered at Montrose
1845-46: McTear & Co., registered at Liverpool
1847-48: Evans & Co.

Masters:
1827-33: Master J. Nicol
1834-38: Master A. Ross
1838-40: Master W. Falkener
1841-44: Master Montague
1845-46: Master G. Hayes
1847-49: Master Thompson

Voyages (from Lloyd's):
1827-30: London to Pernambuco (Recife - Brazil)
1829: London - Hamburg
1832-33: Poole.
1838: Aberdeen - Newcastle
1839-40: Liverpool - Saint Dominica.
1841: London - Barbados.
1842-44: Leith - St. Petersburg
1845-46: Montrose - S. America
1847-48: Swansea